Publications (by theme)
This page lists a selection of my publications by theme. A full list of publications by type of outlet is available here.
On pacifism and nonviolence
"Pacifism and Nonviolence: Discerning the contours of an emerging multidisciplinary research agenda", Journal of Pacifism and Nonviolence 1/1 (2023): 1-27.
"An Anarcho-Pacifist Reading of International Relations: A normative critique of international politics from the confluence of pacifism and anarchism", International Studies Quarterly 66/4 (December 2022).
"A Pacifist Critique of the Red Poppy: reflections on the militaristic drift of British war commemorations", Critical Military Studies 9/3 (2023): 324-345.
"Tolstoyan Pacifism", in Tolstoy's Political Thought: Christian Anarcho-Pacifist Iconoclasm Then and Now (Abingdon: Routledge, 2020), 23-55.
"Tolstoyan Activism", in Tolstoy's Political Thought: Christian Anarcho-Pacifist Iconoclasm Then and Now (Abingdon: Routledge, 2020), 169-207.
"The Golden Rule on the Green Stick: Leo Tolstoy's Postsecular International Thought", in Towards a Postsecular International Politics: New Forms of Community, Identity, and Power, edited by Luca Mavelli and Fabio Petito (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), 81-102.
"Turning the Other Cheek to Terrorism: Reflections on the Contemporary Significance of Leo Tolstoy's Exegesis of the Sermon on the Mount", Politics and Religion 1/1 (April 2008): 27-54. [Bengali translation listed here.]
On Tolstoy's political thought
Tolstoy's Political Thought: Christian Anarcho-Pacifist Iconoclasm Then and Now (Abingdon: Routledge, 2020). [Introduction freely available here.]
"Tolstoy’s Christian Anarcho-Pacifism: An Exposition", in Essays in Anarchism and Religion: Volume III, edited by Alexandre Christoyannopoulos and Matthew Adams (Stockholm: Stockholm University Press, 2020), 71-118.
"Leo Tolstoy’s Impact on Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker movement", co-authored with Erik A. Nelson, Tolstoy Studies Journal 32 (2020): 17-39.
"The Subversive Potential of Leo Tolstoy’s ‘Defamiliarisation’: A Case Study in Drawing on the Imagination to Denounce Violence", Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 22/5 (2019): 562-580.
"Leo Tolstoy’s Anticlericalism in Its Context and Beyond: A Case against Churches and Clerics, Religious and Secular", Religions 7/5 (May 2016): 59.
"Leo Tolstoy on the State: A Detailed Picture of Tolstoy's Denunciation of State Violence and Deception", Anarchist Studies 16/1 (Spring 2008) 20-47. [German translation listed here.]
"The Golden Rule on the Green Stick: Leo Tolstoy's Postsecular International Thought", in Towards a Postsecular International Politics: New Forms of Community, Identity, and Power, edited by Luca Mavelli and Fabio Petito (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), 81-102.
"Turning the Other Cheek to Terrorism: Reflections on the Contemporary Significance of Leo Tolstoy's Exegesis of the Sermon on the Mount", Politics and Religion 1/1 (April 2008): 27-54. [Bengali translation listed here.]
"'Bethink Yourselves or You Will Perish': Leo Tolstoy's Voice a Centenary after His Death", Anarchist Studies, 18/2 (Autumn 2010): 11-18. [Russian translation available here.]
On Christian anarchism
Christian Anarchism: A Political Commentary on the Gospel (Exeter: Imprint Academic, 2010). [French translation here.]
"Christian Anarchism: A Revolutionary Reading of the Bible", in New Perspectives on Anarchism, part of the Out Sources: Philosophy, Culture, Politics series, edited by Nathan Jun and Shane Wahl (Lanham, MD: Lexington, 2010), 149-167.
"A Christian Anarchist Critique of Violence: From Turning the Other Cheek to a Rejection of the State", in Law, Morality and Politics: Global Perspectives on Violence and the State, edited by Stephen King, Carlo Salzani, and Owen Staley (Oxford: Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2010), 19-26. [French and Greek translations available here.]
"Responding to the State: Christian Anarchists on Romans 13, Rendering to Caesar, and Civil Disobedience", in Religious Anarchism: New Perspectives, edited by Alexandre J. M. E. Christoyannopoulos (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing: 2009), 106-144. [Greek translation available here.]
"Jesus Christ against the Westphalian Leviathans: A Christian Anarchist Critique of Our Coercive, Idolatrous and Unchristian International Order", Global Discourse: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Current Affairs and Applied Contemporary Thought 1/2 (2010): 41-65.
On anarchism and religion
"Anarchism and Religion", co-authored with Lara Apps, in Brill's Companion to Anarchism and Philosophy, edited by Nathan Jun (Leiden: Brill, 2018), 120-151. [French translation listed here.]
"Anarchism, Religion, and the Religiousness of Political Ideologies", co-authored with Matthew S. Adams, introduction to Essays in Anarchism and Religion: Volume III, edited by Alexandre Christoyannopoulos and Matthew Adams (Stockholm: Stockholm University Press, 2020), 1-20.
"Anarchism and Religion: Exploring Definitions", co-authored with Matthew S. Adams, introduction Essays in Anarchism and Religion: Volume II, edited by Alexandre Christoyannopoulos and Matthew Adams (Stockholm: Stockholm University Press, 2018), 1-19.
"Anarchism and Religion: Mapping an Increasingly Fruitful Landscape", co-authored with Matthew S. Adams, introduction to Essays in Anarchism and Religion: Volume I, edited by Alexandre Christoyannopoulos and Matthew Adams (Stockholm: Stockholm University Press, 2017), 1-17.
(ed.), Essays in Anarchism and Religion: Volume III, edited with Matthew S. Adams (Stockholm: Stockholm University Press, 2020).
(ed.), Essays in Anarchism and Religion: Volume II, edited with Matthew S. Adams (Stockholm: Stockholm University Press, 2018).
(ed.), Essays in Anarchism and Religion: Volume I, edited with Matthew S. Adams (Stockholm: Stockholm University Press, 2017).
(ed.), Religious Anarchism: New Perspectives (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009).
On religion and politics
"Anarchism, Religion, and the Religiousness of Political Ideologies", co-authored with Matthew Adams, introduction to Essays in Anarchism and Religion: Volume III, edited by Alexandre Christoyannopoulos and Matthew Adams (Stockholm: Stockholm University Press, 2020), 1-20.
"Religious Radicalism", co-authored with Anthony T Fiscella, in Routledge Handbook of Radical Politics, edited by Uri Gordon and Ruth Kinna (Abingdon: Routledge, 2019), 492-509.
"Anarchism and Religion: Exploring Definitions", co-authored with Matthew Adams, introduction to Essays in Anarchism and Religion: Volume II, edited by Alexandre Christoyannopoulos and Matthew Adams (Stockholm: Stockholm University Press, 2018), 1-19.
"The Golden Rule on the Green Stick: Leo Tolstoy's Postsecular International Thought", Towards a Postsecular International Politics: New Forms of Community, Identity, and Power, edited by Luca Mavelli and Fabio Petito (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), 81-102.
"Love, Justice, and Social Eschatology", co-authored with Joseph Milne, The Heythrop Journal 48/6 (November 2007): 972-991.
On current affairs
“Gaza: Should Israel be using violence to ‘defend itself’?”, Rethinking Security, 31 October 2023.
“Seven reasons not to wear a red poppy”, Peace News, 1 October 2023.
“What if Ukrainians hadn’t fought back?”, Rethinking Security, 13 February 2023.
"Ukraine: nonviolent resistance is a brave and often effective response to aggression", The Conversation, 4 March 2022.
"Stop calling coronavirus pandemic a ‘war’ ", The Conversation, 7 April 2020.
"Think the world’s in a mess? Here are four things you can do about it", The Conversation, 16 November 2016.
"Why is Jo Cox’s murder not ‘terrorism’?", Socratic Hive, 17 June 2016.
A more detailed list of public commentaries and engagements is available here.