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School of Politics and International Relations

Dr Haro Karkour, PhD (Leicester)

Haro

Honorary Lecturer

Email: h.karkour@qmul.ac.uk
Website: https://harokarkour.wordpress.com
Twitter: @HaroKarkour

Profile

I am an IR theorist, with a current research focus on imperialism and race in postcolonial and classical realist theory. My articles have appeared in International Political Sociology, International Affairs, International Relations, Journal of International Political Theory and European Journal of International Relations. My latest book, published with Palgrave MacMilllan (2022), is titled E. H. Carr: Imperialism, War and Lessons for Post-colonial IR.

Research

Research Interests:

International Relations Theory, postcolonialism, race, classical realism, imperialism, US foreign policy, global justice (including climate justice).

Publications

Book

Haro L. Karkour, 2022. E. H. Carr: imperialism, war and lessons for postcolonial IR. Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.

Journal articles

Haro L. Karkour and Marco Vieira. 2023. ‘An autoethnography of hybrid IR scholars: De-territorialising the Global IR debate’ International Political Sociology, 17:3, p.1-18

Haro L. Karkour. 2023. ‘From the Twenty Years’ Crisis to the climate crisis: reconsidering Carr’s thoughts on nationalism and global reform’ Journal of International Political Theory, online first, pp.1-18

Haro L. Karkour. 2022. ‘Liberal modernity and the classical realist critique of the (present) international order', International Affairs, 98:2, pp.569-586

Haro L. Karkour. 2021. ‘Illiberal and irrational? Trump and the challenge of liberal modernity in US foreign policy’ International Relations, 35:4, pp.533-550

Haro L. Karkour. 2021. ‘Debating global justice with Carr: the crisis of laissez faire and the legitimacy problem in the twenty first century’, Journal of International Political Theory, 2021, 17:1, pp.81-98

Haro L. Karkour and Dominik Giese. 2020. ‘'Bringing Morgenthau’s ethics in: pluralism, incommensurability and the turn from fragmentation to dialogue in IR’ European Journal of International Relations, 26:4, pp.1106-1128

Haro L. Karkour. 2018. ‘Unipolarity’s Unpeacefulness and US Foreign Policy: Consequences of a Coherent System of Irrationality’, International Relations, 32:1, pp.60-79

Op-eds / public engagement

2020 ‘Would Biden Make a Difference?’ Al-Ahram Weekly, issue no. 1487 (9-15 April)

2018 ‘Educational Reform for Egypt 2030’ Al-Ahram Weekly, issue no. 1404 (2-8 August)

2017 ‘Democracy in the Digital Age’ Al-Ahram Weekly, issue no. 1359 (7-13 September)

          'New Order or New Conflict?’ Al-Ahram Weekly, issue no. 1330 (2-8 February)

2016 ‘Two Cheers for Sadat’ Al-Ahram Weekly, issue no. 1314 (6-12 October)

          ‘A Dream and its Discontents’ Al-Ahram Weekly, issue no. 1307 (11-17 August)

Public Engagement

Chatham House (Royal Institute of International Affairs)

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