Publications
Book
Articles in Peer Reviewed Journals
Forthcoming, 2026. Joseph MacKay. “Historical Sources of Russian Imperial Legitimation Claims.” International Affairs.
Joseph MacKay and Christopher David LaRoche. “Last Things: Narrative Endings in International Theory and History” European Journal of International Relations. Online First. [Link]
Joseph MacKay and Jamie Levin. 2025. “Firearms Analogies and Settler Colonialism in American Nuclear Deterrence Strategy” Security Dialogue 56.4: 356-69. [Link]
Jaakko Heiskanen, Joseph MacKay, Iver B. Neumann, Einar Wigen, Ingrid Eskild, Martin Hall, Alice Engelhard, Hannah Owens, Jamie Levin, and Franca Kappes. 2025. “Nomads and International Relations: Post-Sedentarist Dialogues.” Cambridge Review of International Affairs 38.2: 190-224. [Link]
Joseph MacKay. 2024. “‘Making Democracy Safe for the World’: Kenneth Waltz on Realism, Democracy, and War” International Studies Quarterly 68.3: 1-12. [Link]
Joseph MacKay. 2022. “Art World Fields and Global Hegemonies” International Studies Quarterly 66.3: 1-12. [Link]
Joseph MacKay. 2022. “Kenneth Waltz’s Approach to Reading Classic Political Theory and Why It Matters” International Theory 14.2: 338-57. [Link]
Jamie Levin, Joseph MacKay, Anne Jamison, Abouzar Nasirzadeh, and Anthony Sealey. 2021. “A Test of the Democratic Peacekeeping Hypothesis: Coups, Democracy, and Foreign Military Deployments.” Journal of Peace Research 58:3: 355-67. [Link]
Kiran Banerjee and Joseph MacKay. 2020. “Communities of Practice, Impression Management, and Great Power Status: Military Observers in the Russo-Japanese War.” European Journal of International Security 5.3: 274-93. [Link]
Joseph MacKay. 2019 “Legitimation Strategies in International Hierarchies.” International Studies Quarterly 63: 717-25. [Link]
Jamie Levin and Joseph MacKay. “Domestic entanglements: Family, state, hierarchy, and the Hobbesian state of nature.” Review of International Studies 45.2: 221-38. [Link]
Joseph MacKay. 2018. “Rethinking Hierarchies in East Asian Historical IR.” Journal of Global Security Studies 4.4: 598-611. [Link]
Joseph MacKay and Christopher David LaRoche. 2018 “Why Is There No Reactionary International Theory?” International Studies Quarterly. 62.2: 234-44 [Link]
Joseph MacKay and Christopher David LaRoche. 2017 “The Conduct of History in International Relations: Rethinking Philosophy of History in IR Theory.” International Theory 9.2: 203-236. [Link]
Joseph MacKay. 2016. “The Nomadic Other: Ontological Security and the Inner Asian Steppe in Historical East Asian International Politics.” Review of International Studies 42: 471-91. [Link]
Levin, Jamie, Joseph MacKay and Abouzar Nasirzadeh. 2017. “Selectorate Theory and the Democratic Peacekeeping Hypothesis: Evidence from Fiji and Bangladesh.” International Peacekeeping 23.1: 107-132. [Link]
Joseph MacKay. 2015 “Rethinking the IR Theory of Empire in Late Imperial China.” International Relations of the Asia-Pacific. 15.1: 53-69. [Link]
Joseph MacKay and Jamie Levin. 2018. “A Hegelian Realist Constructivist Account of War, Identity, and State Formation.” Journal of International Relations and Development. 21.1. [Link]
Joseph MacKay and Jamie Levin. 2015. “Hanging Out in International Politics: Two Kinds of Explanatory Political Ethnography for IR.” International Studies Review. 17: 163-188. [Link]
Lilach Gilady and Joseph MacKay. 2015. “Bringing the Insurgents Back In: Early Wars in British India.” Terrorism and Political Violence 27.5: 53-69. [Link]
Joseph MacKay, Jamie Levin, Gustavo Carvalho, Kristen Cavoukian, and Ross Cuthbert. 2014. “Before and After Borders: The Nomadic Challenge to Sovereign Territoriality.” International Politics 51.1: 101-23. [Link]
Joseph MacKay. 2013. “Pirate Nations: Maritime Pirates as Escape Societies in Late Imperial China.” Social Science History 37.4: 551-73. [Link]
Joseph MacKay. 2013. “International Politics in 18th and 19th Century Central Asia: Beyond Anarchy in International Relations Theory.” Central Asian Survey 32.2: 210-24. [Link]
Chapters in Edited Volumes and Reference Works
2021. Joseph MacKay and Christopher David LaRoche. “Theories and Philosophies of History” in TheRoutledge Handbook of Historical International Relations, eds. Benjamin de Carvalho, Julia Costa Lopez, and Halvard Leira. London: Routledge: 17-26.
2020. Joseph MacKay and Christopher David LaRoche. “Historical Theories of International Relations.” Oxford Reference Encyclopedia of International Studies. [Link]
2020. Jamie Levin and Joseph MacKay. “Introduction: Nomad-State Relationships in International Relations” in Nomad-State Relationships in International Relations: Before and After Borders, ed. Jamie Levin. London: Palgrave: 1-18.
2020. Joseph MacKay. “Imperial Chinese Relations with Nomadic Groups” in Nomad-State Relationships in International Relations: Before and After Borders, ed. Jamie Levin. London: Palgrave: 197-216.
2016. Joseph MacKay and Jamie Levin. “Immersive Politics and the Ethnographic Encounter: Anthropology and Political Science” in The Routledge Companion to Contemporary Anthropology, eds. Simon Coleman, Susan B. Hyatt, Ann Kingsolver. London: Routledge: 439-55.