Mark R. Royce, Ph.D., is Associate Professor and Department Chair of Political Science at Northern Virginia Community College, Annandale, and author of The Political Theology of European Integration: Comparing the Influence of Religious Histories on European Policies (2017), and Ecclesiology, Idealism, and World Polity: The Concordats of the Apostolic See ([under contract] 2024), both from Palgrave Macmillan. He also attained the rank of First Lieutenant in the Virginia State Guard, and may be reached at [email protected].
In 2024, on the centenary of Vladimir Lenin’s death (1870-1924), the study of his writings is as important than ever
Mark R. RoyceMarch 12, 2024
Putin has learned to create just enough seditious mayhem to subvert international law, but not enough to provoke war
Mark R. RoyceFebruary 13, 2024
Historian Gary Gerstle traces the rise and fall of the neoliberal regime in his new book
Mark R. RoyceSeptember 21, 2023
Calls to globalize the struggle against climate change have echoes of another global struggle against capitalism
Mark R. RoyceJuly 3, 2023
Julian Assange’s ideology reveals startling similarities with anarchists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Mark R. RoyceMarch 21, 2023
Alexander Dugin is a serious scholar, a genuine intellectual, and a provocative social scientist who may be not unworthily pronounced the most formidable theoretical opponent of Western liberalism since Lenin.
Mark R. RoyceDecember 7, 2022
Xi’s most obvious and consistent discrepancy lies not in any difference between what the Chinese government says and what the Chinese government does, but between what it says to Communist and to non-Communist audiences.
Mark R. RoyceSeptember 20, 2022
The Mosfilm war movies collection greatly enhances understanding of the political psychology of contemporary Russian external aggression, especially the otherwise almost inexplicable official framing of the Ukrainian invasion
Mark R. RoyceMay 31, 2022
Over the centuries, the neutrality of some countries has provided many benefits, including for international law and global diplomacy.
Mark R. RoyceMay 2, 2022
That Russia’s invasion should have come as a surprise attack largely derives from the idealistic excess of the democratic peace theory.
Mark R. RoyceMarch 25, 2022