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Alexandre Christoyannopoulos BA, MA, PhD

Lecturer in Politics and International Relations Email A.Christoyannopoulos@lboro.ac.uk Tel. Secretary: +44 (0)1509 222991 Tel. Direct: +44 (0)1509 223659 Fax: +44 (0)1509 223917 Department of Politics, History and International Relations Loughborough University Loughborough Leics. LE11 3TU UK

Biography

I completed my academic studies at the University of Kent between 1997 and 2008: first, a BA (Honours) in Economics, then an MA in International Relations and European Studies and, after a 5-month internship at the European Commission in Brussels, a PhD in Politics & Government supervised jointly in politics and in religious studies. Between January 2005 and 2010 (when I joined Loughborough), I taught many different modules in different departments both at Kent and (from 2008) at Canterbury Christ Church University. My research has focused on Christian anarchism in particular but has been driven by much broader interests in themes such as: religious (especially Christian) anarchism and pacifism; anarchist theory and practice, the politics of non-violence, and the connections between anarchism and pacifism; the theoretical and practical relation between religion and politics (including international relations); specific thinkers such as Leo Tolstoy and Jacques Ellul; theology, metaphysics and philosophy of religion; generally speaking: political theory, political philosophy and political theology.

Please follow the links to my personal website for further details on my academic background and research interests, publications (some of which can be downloaded), and teaching experience.

Detailed searchable list of Publications

Books

Leo Tolstoy's Political Thought (Routledge, forthcoming).

Christian Anarchism: A Political Commentary on the Gospel (Exeter: Imprint Academic, 2010). [Click here for more information.]

(ed.), Religious Anarchism: New Perspectives (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009). [Click here for more information.]

Journal articles

"'Bethink Yourselves or You Will Perish': Leo Tolstoy's Voice a Centenary after His Death", Anarchist Studies 18/2 (Autumn 2010): 11-18.

"Jesus Christ against the Westphalian Leviathans: A Christian Anarchist Critique of Our Coercive, Idolatrous and Unchristian International Order", Global Discourse 1/2 (2010): online.  

"Leo Tolstoy on the State: A Detailed Picture of Tolstoy's Denunciation of State Violence and Deception", Anarchist Studies 16/1 (Spring 2008) 20-47.

"Turning the Other Cheek to Terrorism: Reflections on the Contemporary Significance of Leo Tolstoy's Exegesis of the Sermon on the Mount", Politics and Religion 1/1 (April 2008): 27-54.
 
"Love, Justice, and Social Eschatology", co-authored with Dr Joseph Milne, The Heythrop Journal 48/6 (November 2007): 972-991.

Chapters/entries in edited volumes

"Christian Anarchism: A Revolutionary Reading of the Bible", New Perspectives on Anarchism, part of the Out Sources: Philosophy, Culture, Politics series, edited by Nathan Jun and Shane Wahl (Lanham, MD: Lexington, 2010), 149-167.

"Responding to the State: Christian Anarchists on Romans 13, Rendering to Caesar, and Civil Disobedience", Religious Anarchism, New Pespectives, edited by Alexandre J. M. E. Christoyannopoulos (Newcatle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing: 2009), 106-144.

"Leo Tolstoy", International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest: 1500 to the Present, edited by Immanuel Ness (Blackwell, 2009).

"Tolstoy’s Anarchist Denunciation of State Violence and Deception", Anti-Democratic Thought, edited by Erich Kofmel (Exeter: Imprint Academic, 2008), 85-100.