Dr Georgios Varouxakis, Department of History, Queen Mary, University of London
Dr Georgios Varouxakis

Dr Georgios Varouxakis
Reader in History of Political Thought

Location: Arts Two 3.09
email: g.varouxakis@qmul.ac.uk
Phone: +44 (0) 20 7882 8374

Dr Georgios Varouxakis is a member of the Queen Mary Centre for the Study of the History of Political Thought. He is a member of the Editorial Committee of the journal Utilitas and a member (and Chair, 2005-2006) of the Committee of the International Society for Utilitarian Studies, as well as of the Bentham Committee (UCL). In the past Dr Varouxakis has been Research Fellow at University College London (Bentham Project), Visiting Research Fellow at Princeton University, and Reader at Aston University, Birmingham. He co-organised (with Prof. Philip Schofield, UCL) The Ninth Conference of the International Society for Utilitarian Studies: ‘The John Stuart Mill Bicentennial Conference, 1806-2006’, held at University College London on 5-7 April 2006.

Research interests:

Georgios’s main research interests include history of political thought and intellectual history (nineteenth-twentieth centuries, British and French), nationalism, and history of international political thought. He has so far published the monographs Mill on Nationality and Victorian Political Thought on France and the French. Georgios has also co-edited Utilitarianism and Empire, and John Stuart Mill – Thought and Influence: The Saint of Rationalism. Georgios is currently completing the book monograph John Stuart Mill on International Relations.

Postgraduate supervision:

Georgios is happy to supervise PhD topics in:

  • British or French political thought/intellectual history, nineteenth-twentieth centuries
  • John Stuart Mill’s political thought or intellectual and political activism
  • Franco-British intellectual relations or mutual perceptions
  • Conceptions/articulations of ‘Englishness’ or ‘Britishness’, nineteenth-twentieth centuries
  • History of international political thought (political thought on international relations, nationalism, patriotism, cosmopolitanism, empire).

Publications:

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

  • Mill on Nationality (London and New York: Routledge, 2002 – Routledge/PSA Political Studies Series ).
  • Victorian Political Thought on France and the French (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002).
  • John Stuart Mill: Thought and Influence – The Saint of Rationalism, co-edited with Paul Kelly (London and New York: Routledge, 2010).
  • Utilitarianism and Empire, co-edited with Bart Schultz (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2005).
  • Contemporary France: An Introduction to French Politics and Society, co-authored with David Howarth (London: Arnold, 2003).
  • Patriotism and Nationhood in Nineteenth-Century European Political Thought, Special Issue of the European Journal of Political Theory, edited by G. Varouxakis, Vol. 5, No. 1 (2006).
  • ‘“Patriotism”, “Cosmopolitanism” and “Humanity” in Victorian Political Thought’, European Journal of Political Theory, Vol. 5, No. 1 (2006), pp. 100-118.
  • ‘Cosmopolitan patriotism in J. S. Mill’s Political Thought and Activism’, in Nadia Urbinati and Alex Zakaras (eds), J. S. Mill’s Political Thought: A Bicentennial Reassessment (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), pp. 277-297.
  • ‘The international political thought of John Stuart Mill’, in: Ian Hall and Lisa Hill (eds), British International Thinkers from Hobbes to Namier (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), pp. 117-136.
  • ‘Mid-Atlantic musings: The “Question of Europe” in British intellectual debates, 1961-2008’, in: Justine Lacroix and Kalypso Nicolaïdis (eds), European Stories: Intellectual Debates on Europe in National Contexts (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming, 2010).
  • ‘“Great” versus “Small” Nations: Size and “National Greatness” in Victorian Political Thought’, in Duncan Bell (ed.), Victorian Visions of Global Order: Empire and International Relations in Nineteenth-Century Political Thought (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), pp. 136-158.
  • ‘Guizot’s Historical Works and J. S. Mill’s Reception of Tocqueville’, History of Political Thought, Vol. 20, No. 2 (1999), pp. 292-312.
  • ‘John Stuart Mill on Intervention and Non-Intervention’, Millennium: Journal of International Studies, Vol. 26, No. 1 (1997), pp. 57-76.
  • ‘National Character in John Stuart Mill’s Thought’, History of European Ideas, Vol. 24, No. 6 (1998), pp. 375-91.
  • ‘John Stuart Mill on Race’, Utilitas, Vol. 10, No. 1 (1998), pp. 17-32.
  • ‘Empire, race, Euro-centrism: John Stuart Mill and his critics’, in: Bart Schultz and Georgios Varouxakis (eds), Utilitarianism and Empire (Lanham, ML: Lexington Books), 2005, pp. 137-54.
  • ‘The Idea of “Europe” in Nineteenth-Century Greek Political Thought’, in: Philip Carabott (ed.), Greece and Europe: Aspects of a Troubled Relationship (London, 1995), pp. 16-37.

Undergraduate teaching:

History of Western Political Thought I (Semester A)

History of Western Political Thought II (Semester B)

Nationalism in Europe 1789-1940 (Semester A)

Victorian Political Thought (Semester B)

Postgraduate teaching:

‘Nationalism, patriotism and cosmopolitanism in political thought – nineteenth and twentieth centuries’ (elective for MA in the History of Political Thought and Intellectual History)