In The Atlantic Realists, intellectual historian Matthew Specter offers a boldly revisionist
interpretation of" realism," a prevalent stance in post-WWII US foreign policy and public …

The question of what it means to be a 'critical'scholar is heatedly contested, both within
academia and without. This 'state of the field'article reviews and explores recent debates on …

Since the outbreak of the war in the Ukraine, realism has made a comeback in public
discourses but it is not clear what realism actually means as it seems to stand for everything …

Across the globe, radical conservative political forces and ideas are influencing and even
transforming the landscape of international politics. Yet IR is remarkably ill-equipped to …

This article analyses and critically reflects on how the concept of 'crisis' has tended to feature
within prominent debates on 'Crisis of the Liberal International Order'. Within such …

This article offers a critical outlook on existing debates on state recognition and proposes
future research directions. It argues that existing knowledge on state recognition and the …

This article addresses growing calls for a fifth debate on international relations'(IR)“race
amnesia.” The central argument is two-fold. First, contrary to conventional wisdom, racial …

This book develops a particular stance on the subject of public service. It does so in large
part by indicating how early modern political concepts and theories of state, sovereignty …

This article pursues an original line of inquiry by placing EH Carr in direct relation with his
contemporary, Max Horkheimer. Although Carr is often cited as a progenitor by realists and …

Critical international theory is confronted with a fundamental 'problem of orientation', whose
answer defines its capacity to critically analyse world politics. This problem derives from how …