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Gabriella Slomp

Senior Lecturer

Room: 206

Office Hours

Tel: 2946

Email: gs21st-andrews.ac.uk

About

Gabriella Slomp is Senior Lecturer in International Political Thought in the School of International Relations at the University of St Andrews. She achieved her first degree in Political Philosophy from the University of Siena in Italy and her PhD in Political Philosophy from the London School of Economics. She was also awarded the NATO prize and research fellowship for the topic, Competition and Cooperation in Modern Political Thought. Dr. Slomp has previously taught at the LSE, the University of Swansea and the University of Strathclyde

Teaching

Sole lecturer and tutor of

  • IR3013 Modern Ideologies
  • IR4504 The Language of Politics
  • IR5406 Theories of Friendship and Enmity
  • IR4535 Theories of Friendship, Solidarity and Peace

She contributes lectures, tutorials and seminars to IR 1005, IR2005 and IR5401.

Research

Her background is in political theory and political philosophy. Main specialism: Thomas Hobbes.

Books

Single-author Research Books

  • Thomas Hobbes and the Political Philosophy of Glory, Macmillan, 2000
  • Carl Schmitt and the Politics of Hostility, Violence and Terror, Palgrave, 2009

Edited books:

  • (editor by invitation) Thomas Hobbes, Ashgate, 2008
  • (with Joseph Femia and Andras Korosenyi) Political Leadership in Liberal and democratic Theory, Imprint Academic, 2009
  • (with Raia Prokhovnik) International Political Theory After Hobbes, Palgrave, January 2011

Articles

  • (2010), “Cinq arguments de Carl Schmitt contre l'idee de ‘guerre juste’.”, KRISIS:Revue d'Idees et de Debats, 33, 101-116.
  • (2010), “The Liberal Slip of Thomas Hobbes’s authoritarian pen”, Critical Review of Social and Political Philosophy, 13 (2): 357-70
  • (2009), “Thomas Hobbes, Carl Schmitt and the Event of Conscription”, Telos, 147, 149-65
  • (2007), “Kant Against Hobbes: Reasoning and Rhetoric”, Journal of Moral Philosophy, 4 (2): 208-223.
  • (2007), “Carl Schmitt on Friendship: Polemics and Diagnostics”, Critical Review of Social and Political Philosophy, 10 (2): 199-213
  • (2006), “Carl Schmitt's Five Arguments against Just War”, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 19 (3): 435- 447
  • (2005), “The Theory of the Partisan: Carl Schmitt's Neglected Legacy”, History of Political Thought, XXVI (3): 502-519.
  • (2003), “Hobbes's Behemoth on Ambition, Greed, and Fear”, Filozofski Vestnik (Acta Philosophica), 24 (2): 189-204.
  • (1998), “From Genus to Species: The Unravelling of Hobbesian Glory”, History of Political Thought, 19(4): 552-569.
  • (1996), “Hobbes, Harsanyi and the Edge of the Abyss” (joint with M. La Manna), Canadian Journal of Political Science, 29 (1): 159-172.
  • (1994), “Hobbes's Leviathan: Revenue-Maximizer or Glory-Seeker” (joint with M. La Manna), Constitutional Political Economy, 92, 159-172.
  • (1994), “Hobbes and the Equality of Women”, Political Studies, 42 (3): 441-452.
  • (1990), “Hobbes, Thucydides and the Three Greatest Things”, History of Political Thought, 11, 565-586.

Book Chapters

  • 2011 'Thomas Hobbes'  in International Encyclopedia of Political Science, edited by Bertrand Badie, Dirk Berg-Schlosser and Leonardo Morlino, Sage.
  • 2011'The Liberal slip' in J.Tralau (ed) Thomas Hobbes and Carl Schmitt : The Politics of Order and Myth, Routledge pp 99-11.
  • 2011 'The Politics of Motion and the Motion of Politics' in G. Slomp and R. Prokhovnik (eds) in International Political Theory After Hobbes, Palgrave Macmillan,  pp19-41.
  • 2009  ‘The Janus face of Leadership’, in Femia, Korosenyi and Slomp (eds) Political Leadership in Liberal and Democratic Theory, Imprint Academic, Exeter, pp 49-66.
  • 2009 'On Ambition, Greed, and Fear’, in T. Mastnak (ed), Hobbes's Behemoth: Religion and Democracy, Imprint Academic, Exeter, pp 165-180..
  • 2009 ‘The origins of Realism revisited’ in P. Hayden (ed) The Ashgate Research Companion to Ethics and International Relations , Ashgate, pp 13-26
  • 2009 ‘The unhappy Marriage of Hobbes and Realism’, in Akis Kalaitzidis, Global Politics in the Dawn of the 21st. Century, ATINER, Athens, pp 29-38
  • 2008 ‘Carl Schmitt on friendship’, in King, Preston and Smith, Graham M. (eds) Friendship in Politics, Routledge, pp.83-98.
  • 2008  ‘On Sovereignty’, in T. Salmon and M. Imber (eds) Issues in International Relations, 2nd edition, Routledge, Abingdon and New York, pp 33-45
  • 2007  ‘Hobbes on Glory and Civil Strife’ in The Cambridge Companion to Hobbes's Leviathan, edited by P. Springborg, Cambridge University Press,  pp.129-147
  • 1996, ‘The Impossibility of a Hobbesian Liberal’, in Iain Hampsher-Monk and Jeffrey Stayner (eds.), Contemporary Political Studies, Political Science Association, pp. 1722-1732.
  • 1995 ‘The Silence of the Limbs’, in J. Lovenduski and J. Stanyer (eds.) Contemporary Political Studies, Political Science Association, 1995, pp. 487-497.

Forthcoming

 'Glory, Vainglory, and Pride' in the Continuum Companion on Hobbes, edited by Sharon Lloyd, 2013

Selection of Book Reviews

  • Review of William Hooker, 'Carl Schmitt's International Thought: Order and Orientation', Perspectives on Politics, September 2011, vol 9, issue 3, pp. 762-3.
  • Review of Norberto Bobbio, ‘Thomas Hobbes and the Natural Law Tradition’, History of Political Thought, vol. XVI(4), Winter 1995 pp. 611-2.
  • Review of Raia Prokhovnik, ‘Rhetoric and philosophy in Hobbes's Leviathan’, History of Political Thought, Vol. XVI(1), Spring 1995, pp. 155-6.
  • Review of State, ‘Thomas Hobbes and the debate over Natural Law and religion’, History of Political Thought, vol. XVI(2), Summer 1995, pp. 260-1.
  • Review of David Boonin-Vail, ‘Thomas Hobbes and the Science of Moral Virtue’; and of Tito Magri, ‘Contratto e Convenzione’, History of Political Thought, vol. XVII (3), Autumn 1996, pp. 454-6.
  • Review of Preston King, ‘Thinking Past A Problem’, History of Political Thought, vol. XXIII(1), Spring 2002, pp. 186-7.
  • Review of David van Mill, ‘Liberty Rationality and Agency in Hobbes's Leviathan’, Political Studies Review, vol. I(2), April 2003, p. 199.
  • Review of Howard Williams, ‘Kant's Critique of Hobbes’, Contemporary Political Theory, vol. IV, 2005, pp. 83-85.
  • Review of Ian Targenza, ‘Michael Oakeshott on Hobbes’, Contemporary Political Theory, 2006.

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