Political theory and political philosophy are disciplines that interrogate the fundamental principles underlying political life, ranging from the nature and legitimacy of power to the evaluation of ...

Political theorists are increasingly interested in understanding how firms are analogous to, or extensions of, government and the kinds of normative standards this implies. This is a welcome ...

Canadian Journal of Political Science / Revue canadienne de science politique, Vol. 40, No. 1 (Mar., 2007), pp. 101-127 (27 pages) This paper takes the Prometheus story in chapter 12 of Leviathan as ...

I’m sometimes asked by students in my political theory classes, “Professor, you’ve taught us about all sorts of different political theories, but what are your political beliefs?” To which my response ...

The Narrow Passage: Plato, Foucault, and the Possibility of Political Philosophy, by Glenn Ellmers (Encounter, 120 pp., $24.99) Believe it or not, my local indie bookstore was bustling on a recent ...

The intersections of friendship, love, beauty, and war remain central issues in the fields of political philosophy and the humanities, profoundly ...

Our graduate program in political science reflects changes in the discipline, shifts in the political landscape, and the additional new faculty who have expanded the depth and breadth of our offerings ...

Are you an aspiring lawyer? Or, are you interested in a career as a government official? Perhaps you’re simply interested in learning about Western politics and how our political landscape became what ...

The Department of Political Science and International Relations currently offers a Ph.D. (Doctor of Philosophy) degree, which consists of coursework during the first six semesters followed by ...