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Machiavelli and the Orders of Violence

“Winter’s path-breaking study probes how violence actually works in politics. With Machiavelli as our guide, Winter shows us, strikingly, how little this political work has to do with the direct threat of physical coercion” – Karuna Mantena, Columbia University

“This book not only makes an essential contribution to the Machiavelli scholarship, but also offers a decisive intervention into contemporary theories of political violence” – Jason Frank, Cornell University

“One of the most perspicacious contemporary investigations into the nature of political violence; an outstanding contribution to the recent wave of republican, populist and democratic readings of Machiavelli” – John McCormick, University of Chicago

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Recent News and Publications

  • political concepts: a critical lexicon

     March 1, 2012: The first issue of Political Concepts: A Critical Lexicon has just been published. It’s a new online journal that endeavors to create a lexicon of concepts relevant for contemporary political thought. I have an article in it on conquest.

  • asymmetric war

    November 1, 2011: The new issue of International Theory is out. It includes my article “The Asymmetric War Discourse and Its Moral Economies: A Critique.”

  • über den herbst hinaus

      October 1, 2011: The edited collection on the Swiss elections Über den Herbst hinaus was just published in German and French (Au delà de l’automne). I have a short piece in it on the Swiss People’s Party and the Tea Party. The French version is here.

  • carceral notebooks

    Volume 6 of the Carceral Notebooks  is out. My contribution is about the prison as a space and object of representation.