A World History of Ancient Political Thought, Oxford University Press, 2009. 2nd edn 2016.

The History of Islamic Political Thought from the Prophet to the Present, 2nd edn (Edinburgh and New York:  University Press and Columbia University Press, 2011). (Ist edn translated into Turkish)

The West and Islam: Religion and Politics in World History (Oxford University Press, 2008). (Translated into Arabic)

Political Thought in Europe 1250-1450 (Cambridge University Press, 1992). (Translated into Spanish. Greek translation forthcoming)

On Community:

Guild and State: European Political Thought from the Twelfth Century to the Present (Transaction Publishers, 2002)

State, Community and Human Desire: a Group-centred Account of Political Values (London: Wheatsheaf, and New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1988)

Otto von Gierke, Community in Historical Perspective (edited translation) (Cambridge University Press 1990)

On comparative and Global Political Thought:

`The Way Forward in Comparative Political Thought’, Journal of International Political Theory 7 (2011), pp. 221-8.

`Towards a Global History of Political Thought’ in Western Political Thought in Dialogue with Asia, eds T. Shogimen and C. Nederman (Lanham Md: Lexington Books, 2009), pp.25-42.

`Decolonization of Concepts’, Journal of Early Modern History: Contacts, Comparisons, Contrasts 1 (1997), pp.55-69.

Self-published: Humans and the Cosmos: Enquiry and Mindfulness (Authorhouse publications 2014) ISBN 978-1-4969-8322-0. This places climate change in the context of world history and suggests how we might change the way we live.

I am currently working on A Global History of Political Thought. This will bring the worldwide story up to the present, tracing today’s ideologies, in China, Islam and the West, for example, from their origins to the present.