Dr Vassilios Paipais

Lecturer

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 462932

Email

vp31@st-andrews.ac.uk

Teaching

• IR5601 Research in International Relations
• IR5402 Analysis and Interpretation in International Political Thought
• IR5414 World Politics After the 'Death of God': Between Apocalypse and Hope
• SS5102 Philosophy and Methodology of the Social Sciences (Convener)
• IR4577 Order and Crisis in World Politics
• IR3071 Realism in International Relations
• IR1005 Introduction to International Relations

Research areas

Vassilios earned his PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science. He holds an undergraduate degree in Law (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), an MA in International Relations and Strategic Studies (Panteion University, Athens) and an MRes in International Relations (LSE).

He has also been awarded a Post-Graduate Certificate in Higher Education (PGCertHE) and he is a Higher Education Academy Fellow.

His research focuses on three areas: the theory and history of realism as an ethico-political response to the crisis of liberal modernity in the 20th century, the question of ontology in politics and international relations, and the study of political theology in world politics.

He is currently working on his second monograph on the significance and impact of apocalyptic and messianic ideas in contemporary world politics under the provisional title: 'World Politics After the Death of God: Between Apocalypse and Hope'.  

PhD supervision

• Flaminia Incecchi
• Borislav Tsokov

Selected publications

• Introduction: Religion or Theology? (re)introducing political theology into the study of world politics

  Paipais, V., 2020, Theology and World Politics: Metaphysics, Genealogies, Practices .

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding ? Chapter (peer-reviewed)

• Self and the City in the Thought of Saint Augustine, Holland, Ben, Palgrave McMillan, 2020 (ISBN 978?3?030?19332?4), vii + 162 pp., hb ?72.79

  Paipais, V., 11 Jun 2020, In : Reviews in Religion and Theology . 27, 2, p. 231-235

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Book/Film/Article review

• Theology and World Politics: Metaphysics, Genealogies, Political Thelogies

  Paipais, V., 2 Mar 2020, Palgrave Macmillan.

  Research output: Book/Report ? Book

• Political theology: A critical introduction By Saul Newman Polity Press, Cambridge, 2019, vii?+?198 pp., ISBN: 9781509528400

  Paipais, V., 9 May 2019, In : Contemporary Political Theory. First Online, 5 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Book/Film/Article review

• First image revisited: human nature, original sin and international relations

  Paipais, V., 1 Jun 2019, In : Journal of International Relations and Development. 22, p. 364-388 31 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Introduction: Political Theologies of the International?the continued relevance of theology in international relations

  Paipais, V., Jun 2019, In : Journal of International Relations and Development. 22, 2, p. 269-277

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Political realism in apocalyptic times: By Alison McQueen Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2018, xiii+235 pp., ISBN: 9781107152397

  Paipais, V., Mar 2019, In : Contemporary Political Theory. 18, Supplement 1, p. 45-48

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Book/Film/Article review

• St Paul between Slovenia and Norway: Ole Jakob Løland, The Reception of Paul the Apostle in the Works of Slavoj ?i?ek (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. $84.99. pp. xiii + 224. ISBN: 978-3-319-91727-6)

  Paipais, V., 1 Aug 2019, In : The Expository Times. 130, 11, p. 514-514

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Book/Film/Article review

• Thinking antagonism: Political ontology after Laclau, Marchart, Oliver, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2018

  Paipais, V., 2019, In : Constellations. 26, 3, p. 504-506

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Book/Film/Article review

• ?Already/not yet?: St Paul?s eschatology and the modern critique of historicism

  Paipais, V., 2018, In : Philosophy & Social Criticism. 44, 9, p. 1015-1038 24 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

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