In this interview with Emma J. B. Sunesen, Dr Zaibert talks about the ethics and philosophy of punishment, value pluralism and mixed justifications, free will in the context of crime, and about how retributivism should primarily be conceptualised as an axiological theory.

In this interview Dr Jeremy Green talks with Emma J. B. Sunesen about Green Capitalism, the productivist assumptions of the Green New Deal, the value of de-emphasising GDP as the dominate parametric in CPE and why we should attempt decoupling money from the debt-growth nexus. At its core the interview addresses some of the fundamental questions that surround green economic transition and the debate between green growth versus no-growth. 

In this interview Dr Tobias Müller talks with Emma J. B. Sunesen about his ethnographic fieldwork, theoretical eclecticism, spatial and topological approaches, secularism theory and what interpretivism can offer politics.

In this interview, Dr Sparkes speaks with our Interview & Academics Officer, Emma J. B. Sunesen, about his academic inspirations, his work on social class, debt, and neoliberalism, and the role of stigma in debt-fuelled consumption.

In this interview, Sir Michael Marmot speaks with our Managing Editor, Christian Overgaard Wessels, about his academic inspirations, his work on the inequalities in health, and his hopes for a brighter tomorrow.

Rikke’s research was concerned with the sexual politics of digital cultures, and with the increasing mediatisation of intimacy. Her PhD - entitled “Sexting as Intimacy Work: Exploring the Impact of Mediation on Intimacy” - was completed in 2019 and has so far resulted in journal articles and book chapters on the dynamics of risk, trust, and intimacy in the digital exchange of private sexual imagery.

Dr Ali Meghji is a Lecturer in Social Inequalities, having completed a research fellowship at Sidney Sussex College, a visiting fellowship at Harvard’s Weatherhead Centre, and a PhD, MPhil, and BA in sociology at Cambridge. Currently, Ali’s predominant research interests lie in bridging the differences between critical race theory and decolonial thought, though which Ali aims to balance the study of national racialized social systems with the global process of coloniality.

 In this interview, Dr Sean Fleming speaks with senior editor Christian Overgaard Wessels about his academic inspirations, Hobbes’ theories of personhood and the state, and the central question of “why, and under which conditions, should we assign responsibilities to whole states rather than to particular individuals”.

Dr. Giovanni Mantilla speaks to editor-in-chief Emil Hansen about his new book, the hidden politics underlying international law and what archival research can offer the study of International Relations.

Dr Robert Pralat talks to junior editor Laura Burland-O’Sullivan about his academic inspirations, the misconceptions surrounding LGBT+ and HIV+ parenthood and the importance of repeating the message ‘undetectable = untransmittable’.

Dr. Hosseinoun talks to editor-in-chief Rosa Rahimi about her journey from California to Oxford as a justice advocate, balancing idealism with realism, and the messy (but rewarding) work of setting up her own consultancy to advance an agenda for realising international human rights. 

Dr Asiya Islam is a Junior Research Fellow at Newnham College, Cambridge. Before joining Cambridge, Asiya worked as Equality and Diversity Policy Adviser at the London School of Economics. She simultaneously was writing on gender and race issued as a freelance journalist published in the Guardian, New Statesman and Open Democracy.

Dr. Leslie Vinjamuri is Director of the US and the Americas Programme and Dean of the Queen Elizabeth II Academy for Leadership in International Affairs at Chatham House, The Royal Institute of International Affairs. She is a Reader in International Relations at SOAS, University of London. Dr. Vinjamuri talks to editors Juliette Odolant and Injae Lee about the origins of her political and academic career, her stance on the future of internationalism, challenges facing the Biden administration – and strategies they will use.

In the fourth instalment of our series of interviews with academics we admire, Dr. Teije Hidde Donker talks to sub-editor Sandra Guldborg about his fieldwork in the Middle East, his work on social movements, and how the choice to study Arabic led him on the path into academia.

In the third instalment of our series of interviews with academics we admire, Professor Hurd talks to Editor-in-Chief Emil Sondaj Hansen about his recent article in International Theory, “The Case Against International Cooperation”. 

In the second of our series of interviews with academics we admire, Dr. Heiskanen talks to Editor-in-Chief Emil Hansen about his award-winning thesis on ethnicity and international order, conceptual history and what violence in translations means for a Global IR. 

Our Managing Editors have been hard at work putting together the first issue of the CJPA. Get to know a little bit about them!

In the first of our series of interviews with academics, Professor Gopal talks to Editor-in-Chief Rosa Rahimi about the origins of her career and political orientation, the responsibilities of the public intellectual, and what it means to be ‘decolonising’ in our current political moment.