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 (forthcoming)
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