Jonathan Leader Maynard

Delighted that my new book, Ideology and Mass Killing: The Radicalized Security Politics of Genocides and Deadly Atrocities, has been published today by @OUPAcademic! Cover/endorsements attached. Here's a🧵 with discount code, contents, free chapter, and summary. Please share. 1/

A major new (non-partisan and independent) assessment of Brexit. TLDR: it’s even worse than original estimations, that were casually dismissed by Brexiteers as ‘project fear’. The UK economy today is 6-8% smaller than it would have been without Brexit. policycommons.net/artifacts/3689…

There were 108 votes to accept the Resolution, 18 votes to reject, and 3 votes to abstain.

The International Association of Genocide Scholars, the main association of experts on genocide and mass violence, has just passed a resolution declaring that Israel’s actions in Gaza amount of genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes. genocidescholars.org/wp-content/upl…

Really important research from The Policy Institute and the Higher Education Policy Institute: The UK public hugely underestimate both the economic importance of universities to the economy, and the levels of graduate satisfaction with university. kcl.ac.uk/news/public-hu…

Delighted that my article ‘The logic of idealization in political theory’, which substantially reformulates the debate over idealization and ideal/non-ideal theory, is now out in the latest American Journal of Political Science. Available open-access! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.11…

Please note that the ‘interview dates’ listed in the job adverts are wrong - interviews will be held in July.

We’re hiring 3 permanent (tenured) lecturers in the Department of Political Economy @KingsCollegeLon. These are ‘education pathway’ positions (in Economics, Research Methods, and Comparative Politics) 1/4 kcl.ac.uk/jobs/117268-ae… kcl.ac.uk/jobs/117209-ae… kcl.ac.uk/jobs/117245-ae…

These represent three key hires for our department, which has grown at an amazing pace (now 90 permanent faculty)! It is a terrific and unusually interdisciplinary place to work with a great sense of community. So please help spread the word, and apply if you are interested! 4/4

They have a different balance of education, research and admin responsibilities, and different tailored promotion criteria to other academic appointments. But they are otherwise the same: in pay scale, permanence, status, participation in our staff community, etc. 3/4

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A new fixed term position in Political Theory in my great Department of Political Economy at King's College London. Do apply and spread the word! @Kingspol_econ jobs.ac.uk/job/DMK462/lec…

This is from a few weeks ago, but I really recommend this great column from @LiseRButler at @CityStGeorges, on the lessons for the UK Labour Party from Canada. renewal.org.uk/2025/03/01/sle…

3 new jobs in my department at King's College London @Kingspol_econ - 2 in Political Theory, and one in Politics, Philosophy and Economics. It's a great department. Details below! kcl.ac.uk/jobs/108445-le… kcl.ac.uk/jobs/108485-le…

Excited to be appearing at the time 'Politics of Fear' event at the Institute of Philosophy in London on 31st January! Details below: philosophy.sas.ac.uk/news-events/ev…

I’m excited to be speaking at the Cascade Institute tomorrow (Thursday) on ‘How Global Ideological Competition Drives Russia’s War in Ukraine’. 1pm Pacific/4pm East Coast/9pm UK/10pm W Europe. Join me on Zoom! Details below: cascadeinstitute.org/about/events/

I hope many of you find the article interesting! Thanks to Res Publica for publishing it - for my full acknowledgements, see the article.

This goes beyond the two main existing agendas for comparative and historical research in political theory - in history of political thought, and comparative political theory - by, in particular, incorporating greater attention to political behaviour.

Really pleased to announce that my paper 'Comparative Historical Analysis in Political Theory' has just been published in Res Publica! You can find it (open access) at the link below. rdcu.be/dYrrT