Chris Armstrong (political theorist)

Chris Armstrong
Known forGlobal justice, environmental politics, natural resource theory
AwardsLynton Keith Caldwell Prize (2023)
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Durham
University of Amsterdam (Erasmus)
London School of Economics
University of Bristol
Thesis (2001)
Doctoral advisorJudith Squires
Academic work
DisciplinePolitical theory
InstitutionsUniversity of Southampton
Notable worksA Blue New Deal (2022)
Global Justice and the Biodiversity Crisis (2024)

Chris Armstrong is a British political theorist. His books include A Blue New Deal (2022), which won the American Political Science Association's 2023 Lynton Keith Caldwell Prize, and Global Justice and the Biodiversity Crisis (2024), which was shortlisted for the Royal Institute of Philosophy's Al-Rodhan International Prize for Transdisciplinary Philosophy. He is a professor of political theory at the University of Southampton, where he has worked since 2005.