Understanding Ideology, Violence and Extremism
I am a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in International Politics at King's College London's Department of Political Economy, and a Parliamentary Academic Fellow advising the International Affairs Unit of the UK Parliament.
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My research is primarily in qualitative political science, and focuses on the role of ideology in collective political violence and international conflict, especially forms of violence against civilians such as genocides, mass atrocities and terrorism.
I also work more broadly on a range of subjects relating to ideology, international politics and political extremism, and have secondary research interests in political and ethical theories of political violence and political speech, and on methodological debates in political theory and political science. You can see my KCL profile on the Department of Political Economy website here. Follow me on twitter at @jleadermaynard. |
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new booksMy first book, Ideology and Mass Killing: The Radicalized Security Politics of Genocides and Deadly Atrocities was published by Oxford University Press in 2022.
For full info, click here. An pre-proof version of the introductory chapter is available for free here. You can also listen to my New Books Network podcast on the book for free here. Ideology and Mass Killing was a finalist for the 2023 Raphael Lemkin Prize for the best book in Genocide Studies In addition, I co-edited the new Routledge Handbook of Ideology and International Relations with Mark L. Haas - bringing together thirty three leading scholars to summarize and advance leading research on ideology's role in different aspects of world politics. The Handbook was released on 25 October 2022 - full info here. |
media inquiries
I have written for or appeared on a range of national and international news media, including the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), Al Jazeera News, The Independent newspaper, and The New Statesman.
For media inquiries, please contact me using my professional email at the bottom of this page.
For media inquiries, please contact me using my professional email at the bottom of this page.