Loubna El Amine لبنى الأمين
@loubnaelamine.bsky.social
Political Theorist. KCL. Comparative Political Theory. Ancient Chinese Political Thought. From Lebanon.
Pinned
I have an essay out in @cincinnatireview.bsky.social
about the south of Lebanon.
about the south of Lebanon.
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And @loubnaelamine.bsky.social reviews Beyond States: Powers, Peoples and Global Order, by Anthony Pagden
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September 28, 2025 at 2:56 PM
And @loubnaelamine.bsky.social reviews Beyond States: Powers, Peoples and Global Order, by Anthony Pagden
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The nation-state, non-Western empires, and the politics of cultural difference is now available in Early View. @loubnaelamine.bsky.social ajps.org/2025/09/15/t...
September 15, 2025 at 5:08 PM
The nation-state, non-Western empires, and the politics of cultural difference is now available in Early View. @loubnaelamine.bsky.social ajps.org/2025/09/15/t...
I am thrilled that my article "The nation-state, non-Western empires, and the politics of cultural difference" is now out in the American Journal of Political Science.
doi.org/10.1111/ajps...
doi.org/10.1111/ajps...
American Journal of Political Science | MPSA Journal | Wiley Online Library
While empires have been central to political theory, they almost always refer to Western forms of imperialism and colonialism to which non-Western societies are subject. But precolonial empires have ...
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September 11, 2025 at 12:03 PM
I am thrilled that my article "The nation-state, non-Western empires, and the politics of cultural difference" is now out in the American Journal of Political Science.
doi.org/10.1111/ajps...
doi.org/10.1111/ajps...
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Delighted that my paper with @ethanvporter.bsky.social on democracy and citizen competence is now out in @bjpols.bsky.social
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Rethinking Citizen Competence: A New Theoretical and Empirical Framework | British Journal of Political Science | Cambridge Core
Rethinking Citizen Competence: A New Theoretical and Empirical Framework - Volume 55
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September 5, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Delighted that my paper with @ethanvporter.bsky.social on democracy and citizen competence is now out in @bjpols.bsky.social
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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NEW -
Rethinking Citizen Competence: A New Theoretical and Empirical Framework - cup.org/3I85Zlp
- @stevenklein.bsky.social & @ethanvporter.bsky.social
#OpenAccess
Rethinking Citizen Competence: A New Theoretical and Empirical Framework - cup.org/3I85Zlp
- @stevenklein.bsky.social & @ethanvporter.bsky.social
#OpenAccess
September 5, 2025 at 1:35 PM
NEW -
Rethinking Citizen Competence: A New Theoretical and Empirical Framework - cup.org/3I85Zlp
- @stevenklein.bsky.social & @ethanvporter.bsky.social
#OpenAccess
Rethinking Citizen Competence: A New Theoretical and Empirical Framework - cup.org/3I85Zlp
- @stevenklein.bsky.social & @ethanvporter.bsky.social
#OpenAccess
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Ph.D. students in the PPE research group at KCL are organising the "PPE for Public Policy Graduate Conference" on November 26th, 2025. See the details here: tinyurl.com/5n7xv5cr
Please consider applying if you are a Ph.D. Student and help us spread the word.
Please consider applying if you are a Ph.D. Student and help us spread the word.
KCL PPE for Public Policy Graduate Conference 2025
We are pleased to announce the PPE for Public Policy Graduate Conference, taking place on November 26th, 2025, at the Department of Political Economy (DPE), King’s College London (KCL). The conf...
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August 30, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Ph.D. students in the PPE research group at KCL are organising the "PPE for Public Policy Graduate Conference" on November 26th, 2025. See the details here: tinyurl.com/5n7xv5cr
Please consider applying if you are a Ph.D. Student and help us spread the word.
Please consider applying if you are a Ph.D. Student and help us spread the word.
Thrilled that @kdpham.bsky.social's wonderful book "The Architects of Dignity: Vietnamese Visions of Decolonization” has received the 2025 Ralph J. Bunche Award. The book is a great addition to our series "Studies in Comparative Political Theory" at OUP.
politicalsciencenow.com/kevin-d-pham...
politicalsciencenow.com/kevin-d-pham...
Kevin D. Pham Receives the 2025 Ralph J. Bunche Award for “The Architects of Dignity: Vietnamese Visions of Decolonization” -
The Ralph J. Bunche Award is presented annually by the American Political Science Association (APSA) to honor the best scholarly work in political science that explores the phenomenon of ethnic and cultural pluralism. Citation from the [...]
politicalsciencenow.com
August 6, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Thrilled that @kdpham.bsky.social's wonderful book "The Architects of Dignity: Vietnamese Visions of Decolonization” has received the 2025 Ralph J. Bunche Award. The book is a great addition to our series "Studies in Comparative Political Theory" at OUP.
politicalsciencenow.com/kevin-d-pham...
politicalsciencenow.com/kevin-d-pham...
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‘Policies built on myths are hard to revise. The repeated accusation that Hamas had systematically diverted aid is unfounded, according to many agencies with experience in Gaza.’
Amjad Iraqi on starvation in Gaza, from the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...
Amjad Iraqi on starvation in Gaza, from the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...
Amjad Iraqi | Walking Corpses
Israel’s allies are still buying time for Israel to change course or come to a deal with Hamas over how many trucks to...
www.lrb.co.uk
July 28, 2025 at 7:30 PM
‘Policies built on myths are hard to revise. The repeated accusation that Hamas had systematically diverted aid is unfounded, according to many agencies with experience in Gaza.’
Amjad Iraqi on starvation in Gaza, from the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...
Amjad Iraqi on starvation in Gaza, from the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...
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‘Far-right politicians in Israel, many of them in Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, have made no secret of that fact that they hope starvation will encourage the “voluntary emigration” of Palestinians from the territory.’
Amjad Iraqi on the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...
Amjad Iraqi on the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...
Amjad Iraqi | Walking Corpses
Israel’s allies are still buying time for Israel to change course or come to a deal with Hamas over how many trucks to...
www.lrb.co.uk
July 29, 2025 at 12:35 PM
‘Far-right politicians in Israel, many of them in Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, have made no secret of that fact that they hope starvation will encourage the “voluntary emigration” of Palestinians from the territory.’
Amjad Iraqi on the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...
Amjad Iraqi on the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...
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زياد الرحباني موسيقى ما تفل
زياد رحباني / ماتفل / البوم هدوء نسبي
Listen to زياد رحباني / ماتفل / البوم هدوء نسبي by Ahmed Gado ✪ #np on #SoundCloud
on.soundcloud.com
July 4, 2024 at 10:40 PM
زياد الرحباني موسيقى ما تفل
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‘The response to this genocide shouldn’t be to allow more food into Gaza so that Palestinians can be saved from starving but killed by Israeli bombing. Rather, it should be to undo the system of control and killing.’
Tareq Baconi on Gaza: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Tareq Baconi on Gaza: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Tareq Baconi · Short Cuts: Gaza under Siege
Humanitarian aid has long served as cover for Israeli crimes. Under the Geneva Conventions, an occupying force is...
www.lrb.co.uk
July 15, 2025 at 6:05 PM
‘The response to this genocide shouldn’t be to allow more food into Gaza so that Palestinians can be saved from starving but killed by Israeli bombing. Rather, it should be to undo the system of control and killing.’
Tareq Baconi on Gaza: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Tareq Baconi on Gaza: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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‘“What can be done?” the European diplomat might ask me today.
For a start, call a spade a spade. This is an apartheid regime carrying out a genocide on a captive population. End military assistance. Suspend arms exports to Israel.’
Tareq Baconi on Gaza: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
For a start, call a spade a spade. This is an apartheid regime carrying out a genocide on a captive population. End military assistance. Suspend arms exports to Israel.’
Tareq Baconi on Gaza: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Tareq Baconi · Short Cuts: Gaza under Siege
Humanitarian aid has long served as cover for Israeli crimes. Under the Geneva Conventions, an occupying force is...
www.lrb.co.uk
July 14, 2025 at 1:10 PM
‘“What can be done?” the European diplomat might ask me today.
For a start, call a spade a spade. This is an apartheid regime carrying out a genocide on a captive population. End military assistance. Suspend arms exports to Israel.’
Tareq Baconi on Gaza: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
For a start, call a spade a spade. This is an apartheid regime carrying out a genocide on a captive population. End military assistance. Suspend arms exports to Israel.’
Tareq Baconi on Gaza: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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On the contingency of history - writing in LA Review of Books.
lareviewofbooks.org/article/ther... @drjanehayward.bsky.social "Finally, at a time when China’s rise must seem, to many, to have been inevitable, both books serve well to remind us of the contingency of history and the opaqueness of the future when viewed from the present."
There Isn’t Going to Be Any Trouble | Los Angeles Review of Books
Jane Hayward reads two recent books on China’s post-Mao reform period.
lareviewofbooks.org
July 7, 2025 at 10:28 AM
On the contingency of history - writing in LA Review of Books.
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"We are dying before the ears and eyes of the whole world. The whole world is watching the Gaza Strip. If people aren't killed by the Israeli army, they die trying to get aid."
Children queuing for supplements killed in Israeli strike in Gaza, hospital says
Eight children were among 15 people reportedly killed when a queue for nutritional supplements was hit in Deir al-Balah.
www.bbc.co.uk
July 10, 2025 at 12:20 PM
"We are dying before the ears and eyes of the whole world. The whole world is watching the Gaza Strip. If people aren't killed by the Israeli army, they die trying to get aid."
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‘I met the great Iranian novelist Mahmoud Dowlatabadi in 2006. At one point he told me: “Everyone says great writers know what to write and how to write. But everybody can figure that out. What matters is knowing where to write from.”’
New from Amir Ahmadi Arian:
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...
New from Amir Ahmadi Arian:
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...
Amir Ahmadi Arian | From under the Dining Table
I met the great Iranian novelist Mahmoud Dowlatabadi in 2006. We had the same publisher, and through them he sent me a...
www.lrb.co.uk
July 3, 2025 at 4:17 PM
‘I met the great Iranian novelist Mahmoud Dowlatabadi in 2006. At one point he told me: “Everyone says great writers know what to write and how to write. But everybody can figure that out. What matters is knowing where to write from.”’
New from Amir Ahmadi Arian:
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...
New from Amir Ahmadi Arian:
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...
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Do citizens have the capabilities required for democracy? The standard story is that empirical research debunks normative democratic theory. With @ethanvporter.bsky.social, we argue for a better framework and show empirical research supports citizen capacities. Forthcoming in @bjpols.bsky.social
stevenmklein.com
June 25, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Do citizens have the capabilities required for democracy? The standard story is that empirical research debunks normative democratic theory. With @ethanvporter.bsky.social, we argue for a better framework and show empirical research supports citizen capacities. Forthcoming in @bjpols.bsky.social
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‘We see Yourcenar now encrusted by the times she lived in, as well as by the disappointment of feminists who wanted another sort of heroine.’
Joanna Biggs on the novelist Marguerite Yourcenar, the first female member of the Académie Française:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Joanna Biggs on the novelist Marguerite Yourcenar, the first female member of the Académie Française:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Joanna Biggs · Beneath the White Scarf: On Marguerite Yourcenar
Twenty years of writing, reading, thinking and travelling went into Memoirs of Hadrian. Several drafts were burned. But...
www.lrb.co.uk
June 9, 2025 at 7:46 PM
‘We see Yourcenar now encrusted by the times she lived in, as well as by the disappointment of feminists who wanted another sort of heroine.’
Joanna Biggs on the novelist Marguerite Yourcenar, the first female member of the Académie Française:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Joanna Biggs on the novelist Marguerite Yourcenar, the first female member of the Académie Française:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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We are hiring three education pathway lecturers/assistant professors for the fall - one in comparative politics, one in politics and research methods, and one in economics. Happy to answer questions about the department!
June 10, 2025 at 1:35 PM
We are hiring three education pathway lecturers/assistant professors for the fall - one in comparative politics, one in politics and research methods, and one in economics. Happy to answer questions about the department!
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‘Laila had given ten years of her life to fighting for her son, and now, in what she decided would be the final act of the fight, she put her life on the line.’
NEW on the blog: Ahdaf Soueif on her sister Laila’s struggle for the release of her son, Alaa Abd el-Fattah.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...
NEW on the blog: Ahdaf Soueif on her sister Laila’s struggle for the release of her son, Alaa Abd el-Fattah.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...
Ahdaf Soueif | Day 250
In a Facebook post from 2012, Alaa Abd el-Fattah, who had just spent time in Tora prison, south of Cairo, begs us not to...
www.lrb.co.uk
June 6, 2025 at 10:38 AM
‘Laila had given ten years of her life to fighting for her son, and now, in what she decided would be the final act of the fight, she put her life on the line.’
NEW on the blog: Ahdaf Soueif on her sister Laila’s struggle for the release of her son, Alaa Abd el-Fattah.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...
NEW on the blog: Ahdaf Soueif on her sister Laila’s struggle for the release of her son, Alaa Abd el-Fattah.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...
My phone is suddenly buzzing with Eid well-wishes and news about evacuation orders in Beirut, all at once. An unsettling jumble of hope and despair.
June 5, 2025 at 7:47 PM
My phone is suddenly buzzing with Eid well-wishes and news about evacuation orders in Beirut, all at once. An unsettling jumble of hope and despair.
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‘What Israel has created in Gaza is an environment so toxic to human life that the unnaturally high level of deaths (at least 54,000 since October 2023) would continue even if the bombing were to stop immediately.’
@selmadabbagh.bsky.social on Gaza, from the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...
@selmadabbagh.bsky.social on Gaza, from the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...
Selma Dabbagh | In Gaza Nothing’s Impossible
‘Can you believe this has been going on for six hundred days?’ one of my fellow panellists asked the audience at...
www.lrb.co.uk
June 3, 2025 at 12:20 PM
‘What Israel has created in Gaza is an environment so toxic to human life that the unnaturally high level of deaths (at least 54,000 since October 2023) would continue even if the bombing were to stop immediately.’
@selmadabbagh.bsky.social on Gaza, from the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...
@selmadabbagh.bsky.social on Gaza, from the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...
I have an essay out in @cincinnatireview.bsky.social
about the south of Lebanon.
about the south of Lebanon.
May 28, 2025 at 2:29 PM
I have an essay out in @cincinnatireview.bsky.social
about the south of Lebanon.
about the south of Lebanon.
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Political philosophers! Please consider encouraging your students to apply for this PhD position on the global governance of technology. The Ethics Institute is a great place to work! It hosts one of the largest and most international group of practical philosophers in Europe.
We're hiring! I'll be co-supervising a PhD at Utrecht University on the global governance of socially disruptive technologies. Political philosophy/ethics project focused on legitimacy & good governance.
More info: edu.nl/9admd
Deadline: June 3, 2025 (apologies for the short notice!)
More info: edu.nl/9admd
Deadline: June 3, 2025 (apologies for the short notice!)
edu.nl
May 25, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Political philosophers! Please consider encouraging your students to apply for this PhD position on the global governance of technology. The Ethics Institute is a great place to work! It hosts one of the largest and most international group of practical philosophers in Europe.
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1) Very pleased with this new piece co-authored with @arturochang.bsky.social in @polityalsberuf.bsky.social. In one respect, it's an exercise in the academic esoteric: an essay on a single footnote in Rousseau's Social Contract. But in another respect . . .
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Rousseau and Tlaxcala: Indigenous Transfigurations, Republican Liberty, and the Transimperial Politics of the New World | Polity
Rousseau’s reference to Tlaxcala, an Indigenous nation located in current-day central Mexico, appears in a footnote to Book 2, chapter 10 of The Social Contract as proof that virtuous republics could ...
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May 23, 2025 at 3:21 PM
1) Very pleased with this new piece co-authored with @arturochang.bsky.social in @polityalsberuf.bsky.social. In one respect, it's an exercise in the academic esoteric: an essay on a single footnote in Rousseau's Social Contract. But in another respect . . .
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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Hello folks! My book, Contested Territory, is now out with Oxford University Press. In it, I offer a critical, non-sovereign approach to territorial rights. My theory is democratic, anarchic, cosmopolitan, and here to shake up the conversation on land rights :-) academic.oup.com/book/59797
Contested Territory: A Theory of Land and Democracy beyond Sovereign Bounds
Abstract. Contested Territory presents a critical, non-sovereign theory of territorial rights capable of responding to border-defying global crises such as
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May 22, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Hello folks! My book, Contested Territory, is now out with Oxford University Press. In it, I offer a critical, non-sovereign approach to territorial rights. My theory is democratic, anarchic, cosmopolitan, and here to shake up the conversation on land rights :-) academic.oup.com/book/59797