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32
Citations
10796
World Ranking
7187
National Ranking
9

Overview

Michael Ignatieff is affiliated with the Central European University in Hungary. Their research primarily spans the social sciences, with a focus on political science and international relations, sociology and political science, literature and literary theory, and philosophy. The scholar's work engages a range of topics including populism and right-wing movements, higher education governance and development, academic freedom and politics, global peace and security dynamics, international law and human rights, peacebuilding and international security, and Canadian policy and governance.

Their recent papers include:

  • The Responsibility to Protect in a Changing World Order: Twenty Years since Its Inception (2021, Ethics & International Affairs)
  • The Geopolitics of Academic Freedom: Universities, Democracy & the Authoritarian Challenge (2024, Daedalus)
  • Democracy Versus Democracy: The Populist Challenge to Liberal Democracy (2020, LSE Public Policy Review)
  • When Democracy Is on the Ballot (2024, Journal of democracy)
  • The Politics of Enemies (2022, Journal of democracy)

These publications have appeared frequently in venues such as the Journal of democracy, Social research, Society, Daedalus, and Ethics & International Affairs.

The scholar has collaborated with several co-authors over time, including:

  • Andrés Velasco
  • Irene Bucelli
  • Thepopulist Challengetoliberaldemocracy
  • Catherine E. De Vries
  • Sara B. Hobolt

In addition to articles, Michael Ignatieff has contributed to book literature with work published by Latin America Research Commons eBooks. A notable publication is Populism: Origins and Alternative Policy Responses (2022).

Their multidisciplinary research intersects political and social issues, academic freedom, and global governance debates, emphasizing contemporary political challenges such as populism and democratic resilience.

Best Publications

  • Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry

    Michael Ignatieff

  • Blood and Belonging: Journeys into the New Nationalism

    Michael Ignatieff

  • Wealth and virtue : the shaping of political economy in the Scottish enlightenment

    Istvan Hont;Michael Ignatieff

  • The Warrior's Honor: Ethnic War and the Modern Conscience

    Michael Ignatieff

  • The Rights Revolution

    Michael Ignatieff

  • A just measure of pain : the penitentiary in the industrial revolution, 1750-1850

    Michael Ignatieff

  • The needs of strangers

    Michael Ignatieff

  • The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in an Age of Terror

    G. John Ikenberry;Michael Ignatieff

  • Virtual War: Kosovo and Beyond

    Michael Ignatieff

  • Articles of faith

    Michael Ignatieff

  • A just measure of pain

    Michael Ignatieff

  • Empire Lite: Nation Building in Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan

    Michael Ignatieff

  • The Lesser Evil

    Michael Ignatieff

  • Wealth and Virtue: Needs and justice in the Wealth of Nations : an introductory essay

    Istvan Hont;Michael Ignatieff

  • American Exceptionalism and Human Rights

    Michael Ignatieff

  • The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in an Age of Terror

    Michael Ignatieff

  • State, Civil Society, and Total Institutions: A Critique of Recent Social Histories of Punishment

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  • Making states work: State failure and the crisis of governance

    Simon Chesterman;Michael Ignatieff;Ramesh Thakur;David M. Malone

  • Isaiah Berlin: A Life

    Michael Ignatieff

  • The Attack on Human Rights

    Michael Ignatieff

  • Human Rights as Idolatry

    Michael Ignatieff

  • The Ordinary Virtues: Moral Order in a Divided World

    Michael Ignatieff

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