Loubna El Amine
Biographic Data
| ID | 1599012 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Loubna El Amine |
| GIVEN NAMES | Loubna |
| FAMILY NAME | El Amine |
| SIGNATURE | EL AMINE L |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3539-6589 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
What is political theory today?
What makes a political theory cross-cultural
Elena Ziliotti’s book Meritocratic Democracy: A Cross-Cultural Political Theory offers an argument for meritocratic democracy by putting two bodies of scholarship in conversation with each other: Western democratic theory and contemporary Confucian political theory. In this essay, I probe the extent to which the proposed theory is cross-cultural. More specifically, I ask what is distinctively Confucian about the political ideals underpinning Zili…
The nation‐state, non‐Western empires, and the politics of cultural difference
While empires have been central to political theory, they almost always refer to Western forms of imperialism and colonialism to which non‐Western societies are subject. But precolonial empires have ruled much of the world for much of known history. Building on recent International Relations (IR) scholarship, this article reconstructs an ideal type of empires based on three non‐Western ones: the Qing, the Ottoman, and the Mughal empires, showing …
Women, Rituals, and the Domestic-Political Distinction in the Confucian Classics
In this article, I show that women are depicted in the early Confucian texts not primarily as undertaking household duties or nurturing children but rather as partaking in rituals of mourning and ancestor worship. To make the argument, I analyze, besides the more philosophical texts like the Analects and the Mencius, texts known as the “Five Classics,” which describe women in their social roles in much more detail than the former. What women’s pa…
The Nation-State 1648–2148
This essay is part of a special issue celebrating 50 years of Political Theory. The ambition of the editors was to mark this half century not with a retrospective but with a confabulation of futures. Contributors were asked: What will political theory look and sound like in the next century and beyond? What claims might political theorists or their descendants be making in ten, twenty-five, fifty, a hundred years’ time? How might they vindicate t…
Thinking about Groups in Political Science
Political Liberalism, Western History, and the Conjectural Non-West
Taking its distance from classical liberalism, political liberalism seeks to avoid controversial metaphysical assumptions by starting from institutional features of modern polities. Political liberalism also extends the limits of liberal toleration by envisioning societies that it considers nonliberal but decent. This article is concerned with the relationship between these two dimensions of political liberalism, specifically as they are instanti…
Political and ethical action in the age of Trump
Beyond East and West
While critiquing the dominance of the Western tradition in the discipline of political theory, recent methodological discussions in Comparative Political Theory (CPT) fail to move beyond the East-West dichotomy. More specifically, CPT does not offer the resources to deal with global convergence as embodied in the phenomenon of modernity. I focus on the emergence of the sovereign state in the modern period and argue that the universal acceptance o…
Classical Confucian Political Thought
The intellectual legacy of Confucianism has loomed large in efforts to understand China's past, present, and future. While Confucian ethics has been thoroughly explored, the question remains: what exactly is Confucian political thought? This book returns to the classical texts of the Confucian tradition to answer this vital question. Showing how Confucian ethics and politics diverge, the book argues that Confucian political thought is not a direc…
Classical Confucian Political Thought
Beyond East and West
While critiquing the dominance of the Western tradition in the discipline of political theory, recent methodological discussions in Comparative Political Theory (CPT) fail to move beyond the East-West dichotomy. More specifically, CPT does not offer the resources to deal with global convergence as embodied in the phenomenon of modernity. I focus on the emergence of the sovereign state in the modern period and argue that the universal acceptance o…
Thinking about Groups in Political Science
Political Liberalism, Western History, and the Conjectural Non-West
Taking its distance from classical liberalism, political liberalism seeks to avoid controversial metaphysical assumptions by starting from institutional features of modern polities. Political liberalism also extends the limits of liberal toleration by envisioning societies that it considers nonliberal but decent. This article is concerned with the relationship between these two dimensions of political liberalism, specifically as they are instanti…
Women, Rituals, and the Domestic-Political Distinction in the Confucian Classics
In this article, I show that women are depicted in the early Confucian texts not primarily as undertaking household duties or nurturing children but rather as partaking in rituals of mourning and ancestor worship. To make the argument, I analyze, besides the more philosophical texts like the Analects and the Mencius, texts known as the “Five Classics,” which describe women in their social roles in much more detail than the former. What women’s pa…
The Nation-State 1648–2148
This essay is part of a special issue celebrating 50 years of Political Theory. The ambition of the editors was to mark this half century not with a retrospective but with a confabulation of futures. Contributors were asked: What will political theory look and sound like in the next century and beyond? What claims might political theorists or their descendants be making in ten, twenty-five, fifty, a hundred years’ time? How might they vindicate t…
Classical Confucian Political Thought
The intellectual legacy of Confucianism has loomed large in efforts to understand China's past, present, and future. While Confucian ethics has been thoroughly explored, the question remains: what exactly is Confucian political thought? This book returns to the classical texts of the Confucian tradition to answer this vital question. Showing how Confucian ethics and politics diverge, the book argues that Confucian political thought is not a direc…
Classical Confucian Political Thought
Beyond East and West
While critiquing the dominance of the Western tradition in the discipline of political theory, recent methodological discussions in Comparative Political Theory (CPT) fail to move beyond the East-West dichotomy. More specifically, CPT does not offer the resources to deal with global convergence as embodied in the phenomenon of modernity. I focus on the emergence of the sovereign state in the modern period and argue that the universal acceptance o…
Political and ethical action in the age of Trump
Political Liberalism, Western History, and the Conjectural Non-West
Taking its distance from classical liberalism, political liberalism seeks to avoid controversial metaphysical assumptions by starting from institutional features of modern polities. Political liberalism also extends the limits of liberal toleration by envisioning societies that it considers nonliberal but decent. This article is concerned with the relationship between these two dimensions of political liberalism, specifically as they are instanti…
Thinking about Groups in Political Science
The Nation-State 1648–2148
This essay is part of a special issue celebrating 50 years of Political Theory. The ambition of the editors was to mark this half century not with a retrospective but with a confabulation of futures. Contributors were asked: What will political theory look and sound like in the next century and beyond? What claims might political theorists or their descendants be making in ten, twenty-five, fifty, a hundred years’ time? How might they vindicate t…
Women, Rituals, and the Domestic-Political Distinction in the Confucian Classics
In this article, I show that women are depicted in the early Confucian texts not primarily as undertaking household duties or nurturing children but rather as partaking in rituals of mourning and ancestor worship. To make the argument, I analyze, besides the more philosophical texts like the Analects and the Mencius, texts known as the “Five Classics,” which describe women in their social roles in much more detail than the former. What women’s pa…
What makes a political theory cross-cultural
Elena Ziliotti’s book Meritocratic Democracy: A Cross-Cultural Political Theory offers an argument for meritocratic democracy by putting two bodies of scholarship in conversation with each other: Western democratic theory and contemporary Confucian political theory. In this essay, I probe the extent to which the proposed theory is cross-cultural. More specifically, I ask what is distinctively Confucian about the political ideals underpinning Zili…
The nation‐state, non‐Western empires, and the politics of cultural difference
While empires have been central to political theory, they almost always refer to Western forms of imperialism and colonialism to which non‐Western societies are subject. But precolonial empires have ruled much of the world for much of known history. Building on recent International Relations (IR) scholarship, this article reconstructs an ideal type of empires based on three non‐Western ones: the Qing, the Ottoman, and the Mughal empires, showing …
What is political theory today?
Politics (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Law (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (5 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Political philosophy (5 works) · Political Philosophy and Ethics (5 works)