Vassilios Paipais is Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in International Relations at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. He is the author of Political Ontology and International Political Thought: voiding a pluralist world (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) and editor of Theology and World Politics: Metaphysics, Genealogies, Political Theologies (Basingstoke: Palgrave McMillan, 2020), of Perspectives on International Political Theory in Europe (Basingstoke: Palgrave McMillan, 2021) and of The Civil Condition in World Politics: beyond tragedy and utopianism (Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2022). His next monograph Theocratic Biopolitics: from political theology to the politics of creaturely life is forthcoming with Edinburgh University Press.