About the Association

The Association for Global Political Thought is an intercollegiate network of scholarship on political ideas in international society and global contexts, based at Harvard University and partner institutions.

We work to renew political thought as a field: exploring theoretical and methodological innovations, and questioning the exclusions and boundaries that have shaped the discipline. Our affiliates come from political philosophy, intellectual history, social theory, political economy and international relations, at universities around the world.

Each semester we host a seminar series, and each year an annual conference, which has met at Harvard (2022), Princeton (2024), American University (2025) and Shanghai (2026). The 2027 conference will be held in Santiago, Chile.

The Association also has pages hosted by Harvard University and American University. They belong to the same project; this site is our main home.