Dr Vassilios Paipais
Senior Lecturer
Teaching
- GD5401 Global Concepts (Graduate School)
- GD5404 Global Theory (Graduate School)
- IR5414 World Politics After the 'Death of God': Between Apocalypse and Hope
- IR4577 Order and Crisis in World Politics
- 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 forthcoming with Edinburgh University Press.
PhD supervision
- Armin Behbahanian
- Anna Coopey
- Kyong-Jin Lee
- Zhuangwei Li
- Sokratis Vekris
- Mian Xu
- Tiancheng Yu
Selected publications
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Political theology
Paipais, V. & Murphy, M., 13 Mar 2025, Elgar Encyclopedia of International Relations. Jahn, B. & Schindler, S. (eds.). Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, p. 298-299Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
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Open access
Between pacifism and just war: Oikonomia and Eastern Orthodox political theology
Paipais, V., 27 Aug 2024, In: Studies in Christian Ethics. 37, 3, p. 657-668 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Hope as a theopolitical virtue: eschatology and end of time politics
Paipais, V., 1 Aug 2024, Hope in the Anthropocene: agency, governance and critique. Waldow, V., Bargués, P. & Chandler, D. (eds.). Edinburgh University Press, p. 247-261Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
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John Heathershaw, Security after Christendom: global politics and political theology for apocalyptic times
Paipais, V., 23 Aug 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal of Pacifism and Nonviolence. Advance Articles, p. 1-3 3 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review
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Theocratic Biopolitics: From Political Theology to Affirmative Biopolitics
Paipais, V., 2 Jul 2024, E-International Relations .Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article
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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
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Democratic political theology or divine democracy?
Paipais, V., 21 May 2022, In: Political Theology. 23, 3, p. 252-258Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review
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Hope in a Secular Age: Deconstruction, Negative Theology, and the Future of Faith: By David Newheiser, Cambridge University Press
Paipais, V., 1 Dec 2022, In: Contemporary Political Theory. 21, Suppl 4, p. 165-169Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review
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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 (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
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The civil condition in world politics: beyond tragedy and utopianism
Paipais, V. (Editor), 11 Apr 2022, Bristol: Bristol University Press. 249 p. (Bristol studies in international theory)Research output: Book/Report › Book