Official Positions
President and Executive Director of the American Council for Justice and Conflict Resolution
Board of Governors Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Political Science: Rutgers University
Chair of Social Scientific Experts for the European Council for Democracy Development
Executive Director of the Independent Experts Peace Initiatives
Affiliate Distinguished Fellow: Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights
Former President of the Caucus for a New Political Science (APSA)
Former Chair of US Academics for Peace
American Correspondent: Lettre International (Germany)
Contributing Editor: Una Cita (Italy)
Education
Ph.D. University of California: Berkeley, 1975
M.A. University of California: Berkeley, 1972
B.A. City College of New York, 1971
Honors and Awards
Stephen Eric Bronner Dissertation Award, New Political Science
MEPEACE Award for Contributions to Peace, Network for Peace
Charles E. McCoy Lifetime Achievement Award, New Political Science (APSA)
Books
***Rational Radicalism and Political Theory: Essays in Honor of Stephen Eric Bronner, edited by Michael J. Thompson, (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2010), 300 pgs.
Trump-World: Berichte aus dem Sumpf (Berlin: Dietz Verlag, 2026).
Existentialism, Authenticity Solidarity (New York: Routledge: 2020)
The Sovereign (New York: Routledge, 2020)
A Rumor about the Jews: Anti-Semitism, Conspiracy, and the “Protocols of Zion” German translation of Second Edition, Springer Verlag 2026.
2nd Edition (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018). Paperback Edition (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004); Hardcover (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000), 177 pgs. Spanish translation (Pamplona: Editorial Laetoli, 2009); German translation (Berlin: The Propylaen Verlag, 2000); Japanese translation, 2018); Russian translation (Moscow: Kalidoscope Press, 2023); German translation of Second Edition, Springer Verlag 2025.
The Bitter Taste of Hope: Ideas, Ideologies, and Interests in the Age of Obama (Albany: SUNY Press, 2017), 199 pgs.
The Bigot: Why Prejudice Persists (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014), 233 pgs.
Moments of Decision: Political History and the Crises of Radicalism, Second Revised Edition (New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2014); First Edition (New York: Routledge, 1991), 224 pgs. Michael Harrington Book Award: Caucus for a New Political Science (APSA), 1994; German translation (Frankfurt: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1994).
Camus: Portrait of a Moralist, Second Edition (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009); First Edition (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999), 179 pgs. Spanish translation (Pagina Indomita: Barcelona, 2021) Turkish translation (Istanbul: Iletisim Publishing, 2012); German translation (Berlin: Verlag Vorwerk 8, 2002).
Peace Out of Reach: Middle Eastern Travels and the Search for Reconciliation (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2007), 208 pgs.
Blood in the Sand: Imperial Fantasies, Right-Wing Ambitions, and the Erosion of American Democracy (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2005), 216 pgs.
Reclaiming the Enlightenment: Toward a Politics of Radical Engagement (New York: Columbia University Press, 2004), 182 pgs. Chinese translation (Nanjing: Jiangsu Publishing House, 2006); Spanish translation (Pamplona: Editorial Laetoli, 2007); Farsi translation (Tehran: Cheshmeh Publishing House, 2008). Honorable Mention: David Easton Award—best book in Political Theory of the last five years—from American Political Science Association 2009.
Imagining the Possible: Radical Politics for Conservative Times (New York: Routledge, 2002), 240 pgs.
Edited Works
Contra-Project 2025” co-edited with John Ehrenberg (New York: New Press, 2026).
Planetary Politics: Human Rights, Terror, and Global Society (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005).
Series Editor
Critical Political Theory and Radical Practice (Palgrave/Macmillan)