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Alan Cromartie

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Politics and International Studies Unit of Assessment Lead

Module convenor for:

  • Karl Marx (PO3MAR)
  • Philosophical Issues in the Social Sciences (PIM54)

Areas of interest

  • The history of political thought (especially, but not exclusively, in early modern England)
  • Military ethics
  • The idea of rights
  • The philosophy of history.

Postgraduate supervision

I am always happy to discuss proposals for PhD research in the history of political thought.

Research centres and groups

ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁÏÍø Ethics and Political Philosophy (REAPP)

Background

I started my career as a political historian with an interest in the causes of the English Revolution. This led me to investigate the "constitutionalism" that was then a central feature of English political culture (the fact that political questions were framed in legal terms).

My book The Constitutionalist Revolution (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006) explores the preconditions and the practical effects of the spread of constitutionalist assumptions.

The prominence of strategists in ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁÏÍø’s research culture gave me an additional interest in thinking about war.

At present, I am writing a large-scale book about Hobbes: The Context of Leviathan: a Biographical Study.

Academic qualifications

MA, PhD (Cantab.)

Awards and honours

Programme Director of the Major Leverhulme Research Programme "The Liberal Way of War"

Professional bodies/affiliations

The Legacy of Greek Political Thought Network

    Selected publications

    Other major publications include: Sir Matthew Hale: law, religion and natural philosophy (Cambridge, 1995)

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