Nicholas Michelsen
Biographic Data
| ID | 1667708 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nicholas Michelsen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nicholas |
| FAMILY NAME | Michelsen |
| SIGNATURE | MICHELSEN N |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9480-4004 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 49 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Reactionary Governmentality: Nature, Society and the Apocalypse
Apocalypticism is a core mechanism in New Right governmentality. This article examines how the threat of complete collapse informs New Right understanding of the present crisis, how it might be avoided, or accelerated towards, and what lies thereafter. We show how their conceptualisations of imminent collapse and post-apocalyptic reconstruction shape their ambitions to change how bodies, minds, society and international relations are governed. Ap…
Reframing power, identity, and technology in a contested Europe
Weather Politics and the Making of International Order: Hurricanes in the Rise and Fall of the West Indies Federation
How is global weather entangled with the construction of international order? This article explores the history of the West Indies Federation with reference to the hurricanes that regularly strike the Caribbean. Recurrent extreme weather events in this region, we show, contributed to why the Federal project emerged, shaped its short life, and are essential to understanding how the Federal vision failed to create a lasting regional order. The past…
New perspectives on crisis
A world for the right
Agenda-setting, foreign policy strategies, and international law after dictatorship
Perspectives on the War in Ukraine
The reactionary internationale: The Rise of the New Right and the Reconstruction of International Society
New Right actors are vocally seeking to change key international relations practices and institutions. We enquire how their philosophy of the international, which we call Reactionary Internationalism, is being socialised by a diverse group of international actors. Engaging with English School conceptualisations of international society and deploying discursive analysis of diplomatic positions, we examine the diplomacy of New Right actors and symp…
Hungary, populism and the New Right
Challenges for democracy in Central and Eastern Europe
Unmapping the 21st Century: Between Networks and the State
New perspectives on open society
Imperialism in Central and Eastern Europe after the end of history
Relationality in Central and Eastern Europe
Global Nationalism: Ideas, Movements and Dynamics in the Twenty-First Century
Unmapping the 21st Century: Between Networks and the State
New openings
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On protest and memory
Securing whose future
New Perspectives across viral time: Russia in the World
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What is a minor international theory? On the limits of ‘Critical International Relations’
This article argues that ‘Critical International Relations’, often counterpoised to ‘mainstream IR’, has come to function as a major theoretical category in its own right. It argues that critique involves ‘minor theorising’, defined as the practice of disturbing settled theoretical assumptions in the discipline. The article examines the role and significance of ‘minor theories’ in the context of ongoing debates about Critical IR. It argues that c…
For a Pluralist Publicism in IR
Reactionary Internationalism: The philosophy of the New Right
What does the New Right want from international relations? In this article, we argue that the philosophy of the New Right is not reducible to a negation of internationalism. The New Right coalesce around a conceptualisation of the international driven by analytics and critiques of specific subjects, norms and practices, that should be treated as a distinct international theoretical offering. We refer to this vision as Reactionary Internationalism…
International Relations Scholarship at 100: Publicism, Truth-Pluralism and the Usefulness Problem
Revisionist studies have shown that stories about International Relations’ (IR) supposed disciplinary birth in 1919 function to obfuscate the history of international thought. 1919 has nonetheless cast a long shadow over how the usefulness of professional scholarship in International Relations has been conceptualised. In this article, I trace how the 1919 birthstory orientated disciplinary constructions of the usefulness of the field as they rela…
Post-Truth-Telling in International Relations
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Reactionary Internationalism: The philosophy of the New Right
What does the New Right want from international relations? In this article, we argue that the philosophy of the New Right is not reducible to a negation of internationalism. The New Right coalesce around a conceptualisation of the international driven by analytics and critiques of specific subjects, norms and practices, that should be treated as a distinct international theoretical offering. We refer to this vision as Reactionary Internationalism…
What is a minor international theory? On the limits of ‘Critical International Relations’
This article argues that ‘Critical International Relations’, often counterpoised to ‘mainstream IR’, has come to function as a major theoretical category in its own right. It argues that critique involves ‘minor theorising’, defined as the practice of disturbing settled theoretical assumptions in the discipline. The article examines the role and significance of ‘minor theories’ in the context of ongoing debates about Critical IR. It argues that c…
International Relations Scholarship at 100: Publicism, Truth-Pluralism and the Usefulness Problem
Revisionist studies have shown that stories about International Relations’ (IR) supposed disciplinary birth in 1919 function to obfuscate the history of international thought. 1919 has nonetheless cast a long shadow over how the usefulness of professional scholarship in International Relations has been conceptualised. In this article, I trace how the 1919 birthstory orientated disciplinary constructions of the usefulness of the field as they rela…
Post-Truth-Telling in International Relations
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Liberalism, Political Theology and Suicide Bombing
This article sets out to interrogate the relationship between Liberalism and suicide bombing. It maps and critically examines accounts of suicide bombing as a practice diametrically opposed to the secular logics of liberal governance, or as the direct expression of the traces of sovereign exceptionalism that haunt the global operation of Liberal biopower. I argue that a uniquely liberal analytic of human finitude establishes conditions of politic…
The reactionary internationale: The Rise of the New Right and the Reconstruction of International Society
New Right actors are vocally seeking to change key international relations practices and institutions. We enquire how their philosophy of the international, which we call Reactionary Internationalism, is being socialised by a diverse group of international actors. Engaging with English School conceptualisations of international society and deploying discursive analysis of diplomatic positions, we examine the diplomacy of New Right actors and symp…
The field of Strategic Communications Professionals: A new research agenda for International Security
Communication has long been accepted as integral to the conduct of international affairs. The role that discourses, ideas, norms, and narratives play at the systemic level of world politics has been examined extensively. Scholarly interest has now turned to how international actors use political communication tools to create and counter threats, such as propaganda, hybrid warfare, fake news, and election tampering, and it is often taken for grant…
The Political Subject of Self-immolation
This article examines the political practice of protest by self-burning. Focussing on Mohammed Bouazizi's self-burning in the Tunisian town of Sidi Bouzid in 2010, I explore the intellectual background for, and implications of, conceptualising such acts as ‘self-sacrifices’ or ‘self-immolations’. I argue that the use of the concept of sacrifice to define the politics of the act, given the difficulties in determining intentionality, is to focus on…
Introduction: International Relations and the ‘Death of God’
Friedrich Nietzsche’s proclamation of the ‘Death of God’ has come to function as something akin to a heuristic device in International Relations (IR) signifying the shattering of metaphysical and ontological certainty in European (post)modernity. According to Chris Brown, Nietzsche’s declaration is commonly believed to signify a ‘crisis in thought’ which constitutes a ‘genuine danger’ insofar as it risks ‘the collapse of the foundations of the ol…
Imperialism in Central and Eastern Europe after the end of history
Relationality in Central and Eastern Europe
Addressing the schizophrenia of global Jihad
This paper deploys Deleuze and Guattari's AntiOedipus to critique discourses on radicalisation that call for a ‘public diplomacy’ to challenge a Jihadi meta-narrative or core identity. It argues that the Global Jihad should be reconceptualised as schizophrenic inasmuch as it is made up of a multiplicity of groups, aims, values, rationales and identities. The paper seeks to develop the utility of Deleuze and Guattari's philosophy for bridging crit…
Liberalism, Political Theology and Suicide Bombing
This article sets out to interrogate the relationship between Liberalism and suicide bombing. It maps and critically examines accounts of suicide bombing as a practice diametrically opposed to the secular logics of liberal governance, or as the direct expression of the traces of sovereign exceptionalism that haunt the global operation of Liberal biopower. I argue that a uniquely liberal analytic of human finitude establishes conditions of politic…
Introduction: International Relations and the ‘Death of God’
Friedrich Nietzsche’s proclamation of the ‘Death of God’ has come to function as something akin to a heuristic device in International Relations (IR) signifying the shattering of metaphysical and ontological certainty in European (post)modernity. According to Chris Brown, Nietzsche’s declaration is commonly believed to signify a ‘crisis in thought’ which constitutes a ‘genuine danger’ insofar as it risks ‘the collapse of the foundations of the ol…
The Political Subject of Self-immolation
This article examines the political practice of protest by self-burning. Focussing on Mohammed Bouazizi's self-burning in the Tunisian town of Sidi Bouzid in 2010, I explore the intellectual background for, and implications of, conceptualising such acts as ‘self-sacrifices’ or ‘self-immolations’. I argue that the use of the concept of sacrifice to define the politics of the act, given the difficulties in determining intentionality, is to focus on…
Introduction: On resilience and solidarity
In this introduction to the special section on Resilience and Solidarity, Vrasti and Michelsen explore the ambiguous and mobile relationship between these concepts, drawing on resources from political theory, before setting out the challenges that arise out of our current and apparently post-political moment. They argue that thinking through the relationship between resilience and solidarity constitutes a space for interrogation into political po…
International Relations Scholarship at 100: Publicism, Truth-Pluralism and the Usefulness Problem
Revisionist studies have shown that stories about International Relations’ (IR) supposed disciplinary birth in 1919 function to obfuscate the history of international thought. 1919 has nonetheless cast a long shadow over how the usefulness of professional scholarship in International Relations has been conceptualised. In this article, I trace how the 1919 birthstory orientated disciplinary constructions of the usefulness of the field as they rela…
Post-Truth-Telling in International Relations
TEST 02 - Elsevier's Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. Search and access research from the science, technology, medicine, social sciences and arts and humanities fields
The field of Strategic Communications Professionals: A new research agenda for International Security
Communication has long been accepted as integral to the conduct of international affairs. The role that discourses, ideas, norms, and narratives play at the systemic level of world politics has been examined extensively. Scholarly interest has now turned to how international actors use political communication tools to create and counter threats, such as propaganda, hybrid warfare, fake news, and election tampering, and it is often taken for grant…
For a Pluralist Publicism in IR
Reactionary Internationalism: The philosophy of the New Right
What does the New Right want from international relations? In this article, we argue that the philosophy of the New Right is not reducible to a negation of internationalism. The New Right coalesce around a conceptualisation of the international driven by analytics and critiques of specific subjects, norms and practices, that should be treated as a distinct international theoretical offering. We refer to this vision as Reactionary Internationalism…
New Perspectives across viral time: Russia in the World
TEST 02 - Elsevier's Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. Search and access research from the science, technology, medicine, social sciences and arts and humanities fields
What is a minor international theory? On the limits of ‘Critical International Relations’
This article argues that ‘Critical International Relations’, often counterpoised to ‘mainstream IR’, has come to function as a major theoretical category in its own right. It argues that critique involves ‘minor theorising’, defined as the practice of disturbing settled theoretical assumptions in the discipline. The article examines the role and significance of ‘minor theories’ in the context of ongoing debates about Critical IR. It argues that c…
New openings
TEST 02 - Elsevier's Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. Search and access research from the science, technology, medicine, social sciences and arts and humanities fields
On protest and memory
Securing whose future
Unmapping the 21st Century: Between Networks and the State
New perspectives on open society
Imperialism in Central and Eastern Europe after the end of history
Relationality in Central and Eastern Europe
Global Nationalism: Ideas, Movements and Dynamics in the Twenty-First Century
Unmapping the 21st Century: Between Networks and the State
Challenges for democracy in Central and Eastern Europe
Hungary, populism and the New Right
New perspectives on crisis
A world for the right
Political science (22 works) · Politics (19 works) · Law (17 works) · Law (13 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics (6 works)