Book

2018
Machiavelli and the Orders of Violence Cambridge University Press
Machiavelli Political Violence History of Political Thought

Articles & Chapters

2026
Imperial Nostalgia as Patrimony: Shipwrecks and Treasures in the Colonial Museum Comparative Studies in Society and History
Empire Shipwreck Political Economy Critical Theory
2026
What Is an Imaginary? Critical Inquiry 52(2): 181–203
Social Imaginaries Critical Theory History of Political Thought
2026
Class and Racial Capitalism: Lessons from Valdez' Democracy and Empire Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy
Marxism Empire Political Economy Critical Theory
2026
Akademischer Boykott ist im Sinne der Wissenschaftsfreiheit / Academic Boycott Is in the Interest of Academic Freedom Jacobin.de (co-authored with Robin Celikates)
Palestine
2025
Does the Left Need New Imaginaries? Hope, the Education of Desire, and the Betrayal of Utopia Critical Times 8(3): 470–494
Social Imaginaries Critical Theory Marxism Utopia
2025
Are Social Imaginaries Immune to Ideology Critique? Constellations 32(2): 255–263
Social Imaginaries Critical Theory
2025
Capitalist Democracy and Socialist Strategy Polity 57(4): 754–762
Marxism Political Economy History of Political Thought
2023
Niccolò Machiavelli in Choat & Ramgotra (eds.), Rethinking Political Thinkers, Oxford University Press: 447–464
Machiavelli History of Political Thought Political Violence
2022
A Government of Creditors: Machiavelli on Genoa, the Bank of San Giorgio, and the Financial Oligarchy Polity 54(2): 658–683
Machiavelli Political Economy History of Political Thought
2022
Machiavelli's Lucretia and the Origins of the Roman Republic: Rape, Gender, and Founding Violence in Chakravarty & Chaudhuri (eds.), Machiavelli Then and Now, Cambridge University Press
Machiavelli Political Violence Gender History of Political Thought
2018
Formally Decolonized but Still Neocolonial? Political Theory 46(5): 785–790
Empire Critical Theory
2020
Exzessive Staatsgewalt Luxemburg 2020/2: 27–31
Political Violence Security
2019
Machiavelli and the Rape of Lucretia History of Political Thought 40(3): 405–432
Machiavelli Political Violence Gender History of Political Thought
2016
The Siege of Gaza: Spatial Violence, Humanitarian Strategies, and the Biopolitics of Punishment Constellations 23(2): 308–319
Political Violence Empire Security Palestine Sovereignty
2015
Shipwrecked Sovereignty: Neoliberalism and a Disputed Sunken Treasure Political Theory 43(3): 287–311 (co-authored with Joshua Chambers-Letson)
Empire Shipwreck Political Economy Sovereignty
2014
The Prince and His Art of War: Machiavelli's Military Populism Social Research 81(1): 165–191
Machiavelli Political Violence History of Political Thought
2014
Debating Violence on the Desert Island: Engels, Dühring and Robinson Crusoe Contemporary Political Theory 13(4): 318–338
Political Violence Marxism History of Political Thought
2013
Necessity and Fortune: Machiavelli's Politics of Nature in Archer, Ephraim & Maxwell (eds.), Second Nature, Fordham University Press
Machiavelli History of Political Thought
2012
Plebeian Politics: Machiavelli and the Ciompi Uprising Political Theory 40(6): 736–766
Machiavelli Political Violence History of Political Thought
2012
Violence and Visibility New Political Science 34(2): 195–202
Political Violence Critical Theory
2011
The Asymmetric War Discourse and Its Moral Economies: A Critique International Theory 3(3): 488–514
Political Violence Empire Security
2011
Conquest Political Concepts: A Critical Lexicon 1
Empire Shipwreck History of Political Thought Political Violence
2010
San Quentin 94974—The Everyday Prison Carceral Notebooks 6: 53–66
Political Violence Security
2008
Gewaltökonomien und Unsicherheit: Zur Gouvernementalität der neuen Kriege in Purtschert, Meyer & Winter (eds.), Gouvernementalität und Sicherheit, Transcript
Governmentality Security Political Economy Political Violence
2007
Critical Theory, the War on Terror, and the Limits of Civilization Political Theory 35(2): 207–214
Critical Theory Empire Security
2004
Étienne Balibar in Murray (ed.), Encyclopedia of Modern French Thought, Fitzroy Dearborn
Critical Theory Marxism
2004
Securitarismus in den USA: Zur Gouvernementalität der Sicherheit Widerspruch 46: 99–108 (co-authored with Katherine Lemons & Patricia Purtschert)
Governmentality Security

Reviews & Other Texts

2021
Review of Elizabeth Frazer & Kimberly Hutchings, Violence and Political Theory Review of Politics 83(4): 602–604
2021
Review of Kevin Duong, The Virtues of Violence Political Theory 49(5): 868–873
2020
Review of Fabio Raimondi, Constituting Freedom: Machiavelli and Florence Contemporary Political Theory 19(2): 112–115
2019
Review of Michelle Clarke, Machiavelli's Florentine Republic Perspectives on Politics 17(2): 503–505
2018
Review of Catherine Zuckert, Machiavelli's Politics Journal of Politics 80(2): e48–e50
2013
Review of Jinee Lokaneeta, Transnational Torture Law, Culture and the Humanities 9(1): 195–197
2011
Der Buure-Zmorge als die Tea Party der Schweiz in Gross et al. (eds.), Über den Herbst hinaus, Editions le Doubs
2011
Entre critique et incompréhension: réaction des médias étatsuniens in Gross et al. (eds.), Au delà de l'automne, Editions le Doubs
2010
Kritik und Unverständnis: Medienreaktionen aus den USA in Gross et al. (eds.), Von der Provokation zum Irrtum, Editions le Doubs
2009
Review of Krasmann & Martschukat (eds.), Rationalitäten der Gewalt Traverse: Zeitschrift für Geschichte
2003
Feeding Fear: The New Security Culture Alternet (co-authored with Katherine Lemons & Patricia Purtschert)
2001
Review of Étienne Balibar, Nous, citoyens d'Europe? Millennium 30(3): 841–842