Dr Vassilios Paipais

Senior Lecturer

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 46 2932

Email

vp31@st-andrews.ac.uk

 

Teaching

• GD5401 Global Concepts (Graduate School)
• GD5403 Global Politics (Graduate School)
• IR5414 World Politics After the 'Death of God': Between Apocalypse and Hope
• IR4577 Order and Crisis in World Politics
• IR3071 An Anatomy of Realist Thought in International Relations
• IH5003 The Theory and Practice of Intellectual History

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 interstices of political theology and biopolitics under the provisional title: Life and Power: World Politics between Political Theology and Biopolitics

PhD supervision

• Theodore Poward
• Ojel Rodriguez Burgos
• Mian Xu
• Armin Behbahanian
• Sokratis Vekris

Selected publications

• Open access

  Creaturely glory: transimmanence and the politics of incarnation

  Paipais, V., 21 May 2022, In: Political Theology. 23, 3, p. 184-200 17 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Democratic political theology or divine democracy?

  Paipais, V., 21 May 2022, In: Political Theology. 23, 3

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review

• Hope in a Secular Age: Deconstruction, Negative Theology, and the Future of Faith: By David Newheiser, Cambridge University Press

  Paipais, V., 2022, In: Contemporary Political Theory.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review

• Introduction: Rengger's anti-pelagianism: international political theory as civil conversation

  Paipais, V., 11 Apr 2022, The civil condition in world politics: beyond tragedy and utopianism. Paipais, V. (ed.). Bristol: Bristol University Press, p. 1-26 26 p. (Bristol studies in international theory).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Introduction: Rengger's anti-pleagianism: international political theory as civil conversation

  Paipais, V., 11 Apr 2022, The civil condition in world politics: beyond tragedy and utopianism. Paipais, V. (ed.). Bristol: Bristol University Press, p. 1-26 26 p. (Bristol studies in international theory).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• The civil condition in world politics: beyond tragedy and utopianism

  Paipais, V. (ed.), 11 Apr 2022, Bristol: Bristol University Press. 249 p. (Bristol studies in international theory)

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• Introduction: international political theory as a European theoretical tradition

  Paipais, V., 1 Sept 2021, Perspectives on international political theory in Europe. Paipais, V. (ed.). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 1-9 9 p. (Trends in European IR theory ).

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

• Introduction: international political theory as a European theoretical tradition

  Paipais, V., 1 Sept 2021, Perspectives on international political theory in Europe. Paipais, V. (ed.). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 1-9 9 p. (Trends in European IR theory).

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

• Perspectives on international political theory in Europe

  Paipais, V. (ed.), 1 Sept 2021, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. 149 p. (Trends in European IR theory)

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• Open access

  Reinhold Niebuhr and the Christian realist pendulum

  Paipais, V., 31 May 2021, In: Journal of International Political Theory. 17, 2, p. 185-202

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

 

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