Dr Luke Ulaş

School of Sociological Studies, Politics and International Relations

Lecturer in Political Theory

l.a.ulas@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 1656

Elmfield Building

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Dr Luke Ulaş
School of Sociological Studies, Politics and International Relations
Elmfield Building
Northumberland Road
Sheffield
S10 2TU

Profile: I joined the Department as a Lecturer in Political Theory in September 2017. I completed my PhD at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Prior to coming to Sheffield, I held postdoctoral positions at Goethe University Frankfurt (with the 'Justitia Amplificata' programme) and Durham University.

I have research interests in the political theory of cosmopolitanism and global political theory more widely, as well as in methodological questions in political theory. My book Being Cosmopolitan is forthcoming.

Research interests: My research to date has focused primarily on global political theory, and in particular the normative theory of cosmopolitanism. Alongside this, I have also developed an interest in the relevance of human nature and political psychology to the practice of normative political theory. I am now beginning work on a book manuscript that combines these two interests, provisionally entitled Human Nature and Cosmopolitics.

Publications

Ulas L (2025) Being Cosmopolitan: A Political Approach. Oxford University Press.

Ulas L (2023) Can political realism be action-guiding?. Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 26(4), 528-553. View this article in WRRO
Ulas LA (2021) Institutionalising Kant's political philosophy: Foregrounding cosmopolitan right. European Journal of Political Theory, 20(3), 421-442. View this article in WRRO
Sandelind C & Ulaş L (2020) Solidarity with refugees : an institutional approach. Journal of Social Philosophy, 51(4), 564-582.
Maffettone P & Ulas LA (2019) Legitimacy, metacoordination and context-dependence. International Theory, 11(1), 81-109. View this article in WRRO
Ulas L (2018) Are the people thinking what Miller's thinking?. CONTEMPORARY POLITICAL THEORY, 17(1), 91-96.
Ulaş L (2017) Transforming (but not transcending) the state system? On statist cosmopolitanism. Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 1-20. View this article in WRRO
Baderin A, Busen A, Schramme T, Ulaş L & Miller D (2017) Who cares what the people think? Revisiting David Miller’s approach to theorising about justice. Contemporary Political Theory.
Ulaş L (2016) Doing things by halves: on intermediary global institutional proposals. Ethics and Global Politics, 9(1).
Ulaş L (2016) Cosmopolitanism, Self-Interest and World Government. Political Studies, 64(1_suppl), 105-120. View this article in WRRO
Ulaş L (2011) Miller's Models and their Applicability to Nations. Theoria, 58(129). View this article in WRRO

Ulaş L (2015) Global Community as a Response to the Cosmopolitan Solidarity Problem, Global Community Transnational and Transdisciplinary Exchanges (pp. 57-77).
Ulas L () Cosmopolitanism, politically In Brown G, Hobbs J & Singh C (Ed.), Cosmopolitanism in the Twenty-First Century Edward Elgar

Grants

2019 Leverhulme Research Fellowship (Human Nature and the Prospects for Cosmopolitics) £51,262

Teaching activities: I currently teach the first year undergraduate module Introduction to Western Political Thought, the third year undergraduate module Cosmopolitanism, and the MA module Freedom.

PhD Supervision: I would be very happy to supervise theses in cosmopolitan political theory and global political theory more widely.

School of Sociological Studies, Politics and International Relations