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The International Journal of Political Theory is published by Emertec Research and Development, a research organization that conducts theoretical research in both natural and social sciences. All members, especially the founders, have extensive academic research experience in several disciplines, and have previous experience contributing to, editing, and even founding other academic journals.

The following is a list of editorial board members and affiliates of the IJPT.

Editorial Team

Editor-In-Chief, Jaan S. Islam
Jaan S. Islam
 is the Vice President of the Global Organization for Faith, Wisdom, and Peace based in Toronto, Canada. His research interests cut broadly across political philosophy, comparative religion, contemporary history, metaphysics, and cognitive science.  His previous works include True Islam, Jihad, and Terrorism: The Science of Islamic Foreign Policy (NY: Nova Publishers, 2016) and his most recent book entitled Political Philosophy in the East and West: In Search of Truth (Delaware: Vernon Press, 2017).
Desk Editor, Gary M. Zatzman
Gary M. Zatzman is the CEO of  the EEC Research Organization. With decades of industry and teaching experience and dozens of papers and books to his credit, the author is one of the world’s foremost authorities on sustainability in the energy sector.
​Email: 
noidrocca@yahoo.com
Ethics Chair, Dr. Phillip Carmical
Dr. Carmical graduated at Chicago university to eventually work in the publishing business. He is currently a principal at Scrivener Publishing. Carmical has a track record in management, book acquisitions, online course development, and business development.
Email: 
pcarmical@scrivenerpublishing.com

Editorial Board Members

Andrew Norris
Professor Norris teaches at the University of California. He is the editor of The Claim to Community (Stanford University Press, 2006), and Politics, Metaphysics, and Death: Essays on Giorgio Agamben's "Homo Sacer" (Duke University Press, 2005)

Email: anorris@polsci.ucsb.edu
Alexandros Kioupkiolis
Professor Kioupkiolis has published four books and numerous articles on political theory. Recent publications include: the edited volume Radical democracy and Collective Movements today  (Ashgate/Routledge, 2014); the monograph Freedom after the critique  of foundations: Marx, liberalism and agonistic autonomy  (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2012), and several journal publications.
Email: 
alkioup@polsci.auth.gr
Luke Jonathan Maring
Professor Maring teaches Political Philosophy at Northern Arizona University. His recent publications include "Debate: Why Does the Excellent Citizen Vote?" Journal of Political Philosophy, and "A new problem of evil: authority and the duty of interference" Religious Studies.
Malik Mufti
Malik Mufti if a Professor of Political Science at Tufts University. He is the author of 
Soveriegn Creations: Pan-Arabism and Political Order in Syria and Iraq, and Daring and Caution in Turkish Strategic Culture; Republic at Sea, and is currently working on a research project on realism in Islamic political thought.
Email: 
Malik.Mufti@tufts.edu.
M. Rafiqul Islam
Professor M. R. Islam is a world-wide consultant on environment and energy-related issues, known as the most published engineer in the world. He has set up over four journals and published, on top of his scientific specialty, in fields of philosophy, law, international political theory (international relations), and the philosophy of history.
​Email:
profr.islam@gmail.com
Samuel Wheeler III
Sam Wheeler teaches at the University of Connecticut. He writes in philosophy, metaphysics, ethics, and ancient philosophy. Recent works include Neo-Davidsonian Metaphysics and Meta-ethics (Routledge, 2013), “Davidson, Derrida and Differance” in Dialogues with Davidson (MIT 2011), and “Pure Realism” Annales Philosophici 2010.
Peter Burdon
Burdon teaches at Adelaide Law School. His research focuses on the environmental crisis and how human society might transition their laws, governance structures and social relations in relation to health and integrity of the planet. He conducts research in legal theory and political philosophy. His recent works include Exploring Wild Law: The Philosophy of Earth Jurisprudence (Wakefield Press, 2011) and several journal articles.
Fatih Gürsül
Professor Gürsül is an Informatics professor at Istanbul University. He also is the head advisor to the official opposition leader of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey, Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, and studies contemporary global and Turkish political phenomena.
Email:
 
fatihg@istanbul.edu.tr
Bridget Cotter
Cotter is a professor of Politics and International Relations at the University of Westminster. Her research interests lie in western political thought, human rights discourse and the political thought of Hannah Arendt.
Sofien Mhatli
Dr. Mhatli teaches at Tunisia Polytechnic School and is the editor of the International Journal of Humanities and Cultural Studies.
Yavar Hameed, L.L.B., M.A.
Yavar Hameed is an Ontario-based lawyer and legal scholar. His study focuses on the protection and advocacy of human rights and civil liberties in a diverse range of legal areas including general civil/constitutional litigation, administrative law, criminal law, and immigration law. He teaches at Carleton University, Ottawa.
​Email:
yhameed@hameedlaw.ca
Serperi Sevgur, M.A.
Serperi Sevgur is a research associate of Sociology at Dalhousie University. Her 
research interests lie in examining the effects of gender and class on the migration and post-migration stages of highly skilled individuals, and how transnational and local networks are formed and sustained by immigrants in Canada. 
​Email:
serperi.sevgur@dal.ca

Advisory Members

Phyllis Bennis, Institute for Foreign Policy Studies
Christopher Cutting, Acadia University
Derek McDonald, Mount Saint Vincent University
​Sevinc Gulsecen, Istanbul University                                                                                                       


Jamal Badawi, Saint Mary’s University
Shamsul Arefin, Dalhousie University
Barry Grossman, International Law Jurist
​Ali Hassan Mughal, Former Vice President of Riyadh Bank

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