Alan Johnson

 

Professor Alan Johnson is Senior Research Fellow at the Britain Israel Communications and Research Centre. He is the Editor of Fathom: for a deeper understanding of Israel and the region, a free quarterly journal, app and website. He was a professor of democratic theory and practice at Edge Hill University before joining BICOM in 2011.

 

A Senior Research Associate at the Foreign Policy Centre, he founded and edited Democratiya, a free online journal of international politics from 2005 until its incorporation into Dissent magazine in 2009, where he serves on the editorial board. He was a co-author of the 2006 ‘Euston Manifesto’, a modern statement of social democratic antitotalitarianism, and in 2007 he edited Global Politics After 9/11: The Democratiya Interviews.

Alan recently completed a study for the UK government, examining journeys taken by young British Muslims ‘in and out of extremism’ and developing strategies to counter radicalisation.

 

He blogs weekly at The Daily Telegraph and World Affairs.

 

Recent publications

• Alan Johnson, Global Politics After 9/11: The Democratiya Interviews, The Foreign Policy Centre, London, 2007.

• Alan Johnson, ‘The Politics of Richard Rorty’, in Richard Rorty (Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers), edited by James Tartaglia, Routledge, 2009.

• Alan Johnson, ‘Slavoj Žižek's Theory of Revolution: A Critique’, The Legacy of Marxism: Contemporary Challenges, Conflicts, and Developments, Bloomsbury Academic, 2012.

• Alan Johnson and Toby Greene, ‘How do we create a future for the two-state solution?’, The Foreign Policy Centre, 2013.

• Alan Johnson, ‘Intellectual Incitement: The Anti-Zionist Ideology and the Anti-Zionist Subject’ in Cary Nelson and Gabriel Brahm (eds.) The Case Against Academic Boycotts of Israel, scheduled for distribution by Wayne State University Press in October 2014.