The following areas of research strength and staff interest fall in the general area of political theory, political philosophy, or the history of political thought.

• Contemporary Analytic Moral and Political Philosophy
  • Just War Theory
  • Human Rights

• Rhetorical Political analysis
• Post-structuralism
• Cultural Politics
  
• Democratic Theory 
• Macropolitical Change
  • state-formation
  • empire-building
  • globalization 

• History of European Political Thought

• International Political Theory

• Political Theory of Gender and Sexuality