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].
David Austen Walsh’s “The Conservative Movement and the Far Right” commits the historical sin of projecting contemporary categories onto past figures and events
Mark R. RoyceSeptember 24, 2024
Despite allegations that Russia planted Hunter Biden’s laptop, an examination of Russia’s history of disinformation shows this was always a far-fetched allegation
Mark R. RoyceAugust 9, 2024
Is the Israeli state a “racist regime,” as critics allege?
Mark R. RoyceJune 24, 2024
Although unlikely to become the Prime Minister of the Netherlands, Geert Wilders has unmistakably altered his nation’s political trajectory
Mark R. RoyceMay 30, 2024
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