Against Mystification, or What Went Wrong with Critical IR
A project of demystification would reorient critical IR scholars away from the fetishization of oppressed groups as vectors for abstract theorizing.
Interview – Adam B. Lerner
Adam Lerner outlines the role of collective trauma in international politics and how to challenge some of the problematic assumptions of mainstream IR.
Whatever Happened to the Frankfurt School in International Relations?
What lies behind the Frankfurt School’s decline in IR theory and what does it say about broader changes in the discipline today?
Towards a Critical History of ‘Critical IR’
We will never know precisely what impact ‘critical’ forms of scholarly practice have had on the world as we have no ‘planet B’ to act as a control group.
Interview – Charlotte Heath-Kelly
Charlotte Heath-Kelly discusses crime prevention, and the role of counter-radicalisation in combatting terrorism.
Latin American Critical Economic Thinking and the Labor Market
Latin American critical thinking addresses problems intrinsic to Latin American countries and provides policy makers with the analytical arguments for implementing a different development strategy.
Why Is There No Minor International Theory?
It is time to let ‘Critical IR’ go as a term. It gives succour to some of the least admirable of academic impulses and undermines the very conditions for critique.
Alienation and Marxism: An Alternative Starting Point for Critical IR Theory
When discussing anxiety as the constitutive feature of society, we should be talking about something social and historical, rather than transhistorical and ontological, for a politically relevant approach.
Rethinking Critical IR: Towards a Plurilogue of Cosmologies
Critical IR began as a strongly emancipatory and normative project, however, it seems to have lost its initial focus and risks forgoing its emancipatory potential.
The ‘Failure of Critical Theory’ as an Ideological Discourse
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.
