Author profile: Beate Jahn

Beate Jahn is Professor of International Relations at the University of Sussex. Her research interests are in critical and classical theory, ideology, and liberalism. Her publications include Moral und Politik (1993), The Cultural Construction of International Relations (2000), Classical Theory in International Relations (2006) and Liberal Internationalism (2013).

The ‘Failure of Critical Theory’ as an Ideological Discourse

Beate Jahn • Dec 18 2021 • Articles

The pressures of neoliberalism generate a discourse that challenges critical theory’s core principles and thus undermines its ability keep alive the theoretical possibility of a just and humane society.

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