Angus Harwood Brown
PhD Candidate in History
University of Cambridge
I am a PhD Candidate in History at the University of Cambridge, working on a dissertation on 18th-century debates on constitutional guardianship, representative government, popular sovereignty, and the origins of Benjamin Constant’s doctrine of the Pouvoir Neutre.
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My academic writing has been published or is forthcoming in the Intellectual History Review and the Journal of the History of Ideas. Other writing can be found in Jacobin, Engelsberg Ideas, The Erasmus Forum, and Tocqueville 21.
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Alongside my PhD I am also the Newsletter Editor and a General Editor for Tocqueville 21, the online journal of the Tocqueville Society.
Areas of Expertise
The History of Political Thought, Political Theory, Constitutional History, and International Relations Theory.
My broader research interests are in political theory, the history of political thought, modern European and American history, international political thought and international relations theory from the 18th to 20th centuries.
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Alongside my dissertation I am currently working on the influence of French Revolutionary ideas about international politics on Immanuel Kant's famous project for perpetual peace.
Contact Me
I can be reached by email at ahb43[at]cam.ac.uk
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I can also be found on Twitter as @AHarwoodBrown or on LinkedIn.