Emancipatory international relations: critical thinking in international relations

1. Emancipatory international relations : a first cut -- 2. Between rationalism and empiricism : an emancipatory reading of Immanuel Kant's international relations -- 3. Neo-Kantian emancipatory visions and revisions -- 4. Marxism, Linklater and critical theory -- 5. Nietzsche : founder of postmodernism? -- 6. Postmodernist international relations discourse -- 7. Feminist tensions in the shadows of modernist international relations theory -- 8. Postmodernist international relations feminist theory : can one avoid the maelstrom? -- 9. Conclusion.

International relations theory is witnessing a veritable explosion of works within the areas of modernism and postmodernism, yet there has been no attempt to compare these theories and their sources according to a common criterion or logical form. This author argues that while these pioneering, imaginative and exciting theoretical works are disparate, they also share a common thread that seeks to express emancipatory goals for international relations.This book provides an in-depth critical study of this genre of theorizing that he names 'Emancipatory International Relations'. Spegele develops