Shannon Brincat
Biographic Data
| ID | 1667691 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shannon Brincat |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shannon |
| FAMILY NAME | Brincat |
| SIGNATURE | BRINCAT S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Sunshine Coast |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1426-5793 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 40 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 87 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 38 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Understanding Timor-Leste today: Beyond scholarly and practical limitations in existing research
This article surveys the contemporary state of Timor-Leste studies by examining both the scholarly and practical limitations that continue to shape knowledge production on the country. It argues that existing research has made substantial contributions to understanding Timor-Leste’s history of colonialism, resistance and solidarity, state-building, customary governance, gender, and petroleum-led development yet remains uneven in its thematic, geo…
The ‘Maun Boot generation of 1975’ discourse: Framing the history and future of Timor-Leste in the 2023 general election
This article examines the political deployment of elite-centred historical narratives in Timor-Leste, focusing on the ‘ Maun Boot ’ (‘Big Brother’) discourse and its enduring resonance in Timorese electoral politics. Adapting Norman Fairclough’s critical discourse analysis, we investigate how political elites mobilize this normative historical framing to claim authority, produce legitimacy and shape public memory and perceptions, particularly in …
Uhud, Kairouan and the battle of Ben Gardane: Situating Salafī-jihādist militancy in context
The persistent decontextualisation of terrorism and reluctance to engage with historical and structural conditions remains a key challenge for terrorism studies. In this paper, we apply a case study method and discourse analysis to help understand the historical, political, social and economic context of Salafī-jihādist militancy and discourse in Tunisia. We focus on Ben Gardane – a milieu for recruitment for Islamic State – and examine the group…
Agentic misrecognition in world politics
The phenomenon of misrecognition has been analysed under various angles by philosophy, political theory, sociology and lately also by international relations (IR). In IR, (mis)recognition is mainly understood as either status denial (i.e. denial of legal state recognition), inflated honor pretentions (including positive self-images, mythical narratives of the past, Great Power projections and so on), or as a denial of vital conditions necessary f…
Regional integration in Latin America: Critical perspectives in the time of populism
This introduction explores the paradox of Latin America’s weak regional integration despite its shared linguistic, historical, and cultural ties, alongside strong public support for cooperation. It situates this regional challenge within broader global trends, contrasting Latin America’s fluctuating and fragile integration efforts with the more institutionalised and sustained regionalism observed in other regions around the world. The discussion …
Introduction: Che Guevara and world politics
This introductory article to the volume Che Lives! provides a general primer to Che Guevara's thinking and practice in world politics. Situating Che's historical significance as a radical agent and thinker in the 1960s, it canvasses the various politicised readings of his legacy, suggesting focusing on shared textual evidence and widely agreed thematic areas can limit this problem for analysis. The article argues that, despite some apparent chang…
Che Lives! The Legacy of Che Guevara in World Politics
Che’s critique of the Organization of American States: From Punta del Este (1961) to Bolivia (2019)
Che's revolutionary solidarity championed the Spirit of Bolivar and Marti across the Latin American Community. Underlying this solidarism was a fervent belief in the potential for an emancipated regional Americas freed of neo–imperialist control. Yet, Che saw this possibility thwarted by the regional hegemony of the US government and its dominance of regional organizations through which it was able to intervene economically and even militarily ac…
Ordering the Wild”: How Adaptive Management Is Used to Maintain Nature Like a Postcard
In this paper we examine and critique adaptive management (AM) practices for protected areas (PAs), in pursuit of practices that can account for more-than-human relations. Engaging with empirical research from Australian PAs, we reflect on the formation of PAs as “exceptional places” where Nature is implicitly/explicitly to be controlled. We find that AM practices harness the spatial and temporal characteristics of the PAs to deliberatively const…
The Imagination and International Relations
The imagination is at the heart of what it means to be human. For this reason, it has been the subject of close examination across time and locale. Yet, while international relations (IR) researchers often mobilize the term rhetorically, its character and operations remain underconceptualized in the discipline and disconnected from the rich literatures that explore this vital faculty. This article identifies a commonsense account of the imaginati…
Class and climate‐change adaptation in rural India: Beyond community‐based adaptation models
This article explores the ways in which class structure in agrarian societies shape local adaptation responses to the impact of climate change, based on an empirical study of a village society in western Maharashtra, India. It draws on two types of fieldwork data, quantitative and qualitative, including a round of household socio‐economic survey questionnaire and qualitative semi‐structured interviews. We show that climate‐change adaptation is cl…
When Öcalan met Bookchin: The Kurdish Freedom Movement and the Political Theory of Democratic Confederalism
The transformation of the Kurdish Freedom Movement towards Democratic Confederalism has promised a new horizon for emancipatory political organisation. This article examines the relationship between Bookchin’s political theory of communalism and Öcalan’s democratic confederalism informed by various lived practices of the Kurdish Freedom Movement. After situating this movement in the geopolitics of the contemporary Middle East and international re…
‘Warning! Zombies Ahead …’
Zombies are political creatures precisely because they give visual depiction and bring forth the chaos of the very real violence hidden under the ideological veil of Western capitalism as it moves into a peculiarly predatory phase. This chapter asserts the zombie as an allegory of the determinate negation of the human-being–of our uniqueness, will, labour, desires/needs and our intersubjective relations with others–under this global economic orde…
The discourses of climate change science: Scientific reporting, climate negotiations and the case of Papua New Guinea
Dialectics in World Politics
This volume explores the conceptual, methodological and praxeological aspects of dialectical analysis in world politics. As dialectics has remained an under-theorised analytical tool in international relations, this volume provides a critical resource for those seeking to deploy dialectics in their own research by showcasing its effectiveness for understanding and transforming world politics. Contributions demonstrate a number of innovative ways …
From International Relations to World Civilizations: The Contributions of Robert W. Cox
Cosmopolitan recognition: Three vignettes
This paper examines recognition in the cosmopolitan sphere of recognition – a sphere of ethical life and social freedom formed in the processes of recognition between individuals and groups across, over, and beyond, the state. The paper contends that Axel Honneth’s recognition theory can overcome many of the limitations inherent to established cosmopolitan paradigms, and, through normative reconstruction, provide a unique methodological framework…
Traditional, Problem-Solving and Critical Theory: An Analysis of Horkheimer and Cox's Setting of the ‘Critical’ Divide
Robert W. Cox's dictum that ‘(t)heory is for someone and for some purpose’ (emphasis in the original) is said to be the most-quoted line in International Relations (IR) theory. Yet whilst this spurred a revolution in critical thinking in IR, it echoed a far older conception of Critical Theory advanced by Max Horkheimer in the 1930s that claimed there is ‘no theory of society ... that does not contain political motivations'. Both sentiments emphas…
Behemoth Pulls the Peasant’s Plough’: Convergence and Resistance to Business Civilization in China
It has been widely held that China’s development was forged from a unique pathway to that of Western countries. As a result, it has been assumed that China’s historical experience of modernization contains important lessons for other developing states. However, as we show, modernization in China can be seen as sharing many of the same assumptions of development as the West. Using insights from Cox’s work on civilizations—particularly the notion o…
From International Relations to World Civilizations: The Contributions of Robert W. Cox
This volume explores the work of Robert W. Cox across International Relations, International Political Economy, and International Historical Sociology. Robert W. Cox has been a key figure in so-called critical approaches to world politics, contributing to the inter-paradigm debate in IR, pioneering the Gramscian approach to IPE, developing key insights into international institutions, and the changing nature of capitalism and the state. His more …
Dialectical tensions: Marcuse, Dunayevskaya and the problems of the age
There has been a resurgence of interest in the work of Raya Dunayevskaya and Herbert Marcuse, particularly regarding their shared concern with humanism and dialectics. Recent edited collections on Dunayevskaya's correspondence have, however, drawn a sharp contrast between the conceptions of the dialectical method: Dunayesvkaya, who emphasized the need for 'philosophic new beginnings' to offer a new relationship between theory and practice, and He…
Global Climate Change Justice: From Rawls’ Law of Peoples to Honneth’s Conditions of Freedom
The problem of global climate changes has raised fundamental questions of justice in world politics centered around the vast discrepancies between the causes and the effects of global warming and the uneven levels of consumption/enjoyment of fossil fuels. The overwhelming majority of approaches in environmental ethics have focused on either distributive justice or rights-based frameworks. Climate change justice, however, can be explored through a…
The Necessity of Dialectical Naturalism: Marcuse, Bookchin, and Dialectics in the Midst of Ecological Crises
In the wake of ecological crises, there has been a resurgence of interest in the relation between dialectical thought and nature. The work of Herbert Marcuse and Murray Bookchin offers unique approaches to this question that remain highly relevant. In the first half of the article, we engage with Marcuse's application of the dialectical method in which he gestured to the “vital need” to push beyond the appearance of “the real” and yet lamented th…
Dialectics in World Politics
Recognition, Conflict and the Problem of Global Ethical Community
Cosmopolitan recognition: Three vignettes
This paper examines recognition in the cosmopolitan sphere of recognition – a sphere of ethical life and social freedom formed in the processes of recognition between individuals and groups across, over, and beyond, the state. The paper contends that Axel Honneth’s recognition theory can overcome many of the limitations inherent to established cosmopolitan paradigms, and, through normative reconstruction, provide a unique methodological framework…
When Öcalan met Bookchin: The Kurdish Freedom Movement and the Political Theory of Democratic Confederalism
The transformation of the Kurdish Freedom Movement towards Democratic Confederalism has promised a new horizon for emancipatory political organisation. This article examines the relationship between Bookchin’s political theory of communalism and Öcalan’s democratic confederalism informed by various lived practices of the Kurdish Freedom Movement. After situating this movement in the geopolitics of the contemporary Middle East and international re…
Reclaiming the Utopian imaginary in IR theory
This article aims to reinvigorate the utopian imagination as a vital and necessary component in IR theory. Since the First Great Debate between the Realists and the Utopianists (or more accurately, the Liberal-Internationalists) the utopian tradition has been viewed as being both subjective and arbitrary, leading to its dismissal as vain idealism in world politics. This article re-interrogates the arguments of Carr and Morgenthau and finds that t…
Dialectics and World Politics: The Story So Far
The question ‘What is dialectics?’ is notoriously difficult to answer. Theoretical obfuscation and ideological baggage have fostered widespread misunderstandings of the concept. This article is intended to go some way in providing an answer, though one offered as a heuristic in which further developments can be made, rather than as doctrinaire statement of first principles. This introductory account of dialectics proceeds in four steps. It begins…
Towards a social-relational dialectic for world politics
Dialectics remains an underutilized methodology in contemporary IR theory, which represents a significant limitation to the study of world politics, particularly in under-standing processes of transformation and change — an oversight that this article intends to redress. This article has two primary goals. First, it aims to reconstruct and build upon the small but robust debate concerning the validity of dialectics in IR that has been championed …
The Imagination and International Relations
The imagination is at the heart of what it means to be human. For this reason, it has been the subject of close examination across time and locale. Yet, while international relations (IR) researchers often mobilize the term rhetorically, its character and operations remain underconceptualized in the discipline and disconnected from the rich literatures that explore this vital faculty. This article identifies a commonsense account of the imaginati…
The discourses of climate change science: Scientific reporting, climate negotiations and the case of Papua New Guinea
On the Methods of Critical Theory: Advancing the Project of Emancipation beyond the Early Frankfurt School
This article offers a reconstruction of the methodological tools pioneered by the first generation of the Frankfurt School (FS) and how they have been adapted in the contemporary project of emancipation in Critical International Relations Theory (CIRT). It is argued that the praxeological and methodological commitments of the early FS are of continuing utility in the post-positivist turn in IR theory. The paper also argues that CIRT has made sign…
Ordering the Wild”: How Adaptive Management Is Used to Maintain Nature Like a Postcard
In this paper we examine and critique adaptive management (AM) practices for protected areas (PAs), in pursuit of practices that can account for more-than-human relations. Engaging with empirical research from Australian PAs, we reflect on the formation of PAs as “exceptional places” where Nature is implicitly/explicitly to be controlled. We find that AM practices harness the spatial and temporal characteristics of the PAs to deliberatively const…
Class and climate‐change adaptation in rural India: Beyond community‐based adaptation models
This article explores the ways in which class structure in agrarian societies shape local adaptation responses to the impact of climate change, based on an empirical study of a village society in western Maharashtra, India. It draws on two types of fieldwork data, quantitative and qualitative, including a round of household socio‐economic survey questionnaire and qualitative semi‐structured interviews. We show that climate‐change adaptation is cl…
The Necessity of Dialectical Naturalism: Marcuse, Bookchin, and Dialectics in the Midst of Ecological Crises
In the wake of ecological crises, there has been a resurgence of interest in the relation between dialectical thought and nature. The work of Herbert Marcuse and Murray Bookchin offers unique approaches to this question that remain highly relevant. In the first half of the article, we engage with Marcuse's application of the dialectical method in which he gestured to the “vital need” to push beyond the appearance of “the real” and yet lamented th…
The Harm Principle and Recognition Theory: On the Complementarity between Linklater, Honneth and the Project of Emancipation
This paper explores potential points of synthesis between two leading theorists in Critical Theory and Critical International Relations Theory, Axel Honneth and Andrew Linklater. Whereas Linklater’s recent work on the harm principle has turned away from the critical social theory of the Frankfurt School in favour of Norbert Elias and process sociology, the paper observes a fundamental complementarity between harm and the precepts of recognition t…
Negativity and Open-Endedness in the Dialectic of World Politics
This article illustrates the importance of negativity within the dialectical method, aiming to bring clarity to what has been rendered unnecessarily mystical within recent revisions of dialectics, particular in the conception of “meta-dialectics.” The negative element in dialectics, where in the movement of sublation the subject remains undetermined and nonidentical, is argued to be the productive moment in the dialectical movement that leads to …
Dialectics for IR: Hegel and the Dao
This article performs a thought experiment. We ask: what if we were to engage two venerable legacies of dialectics, Hegelianism and Daoism, to see what results in terms of our thinking in International Relations (IR) about World Politics (WP)? Would some kind of a shift, synthesis, or transformation occur, as suggested by the dialectical goal of both traditions? Our discussion focuses broadly on the question of understanding social relations in w…
Che Lives! The Legacy of Che Guevara in World Politics
Che’s critique of the Organization of American States: From Punta del Este (1961) to Bolivia (2019)
Che's revolutionary solidarity championed the Spirit of Bolivar and Marti across the Latin American Community. Underlying this solidarism was a fervent belief in the potential for an emancipated regional Americas freed of neo–imperialist control. Yet, Che saw this possibility thwarted by the regional hegemony of the US government and its dominance of regional organizations through which it was able to intervene economically and even militarily ac…
Traditional, Problem-Solving and Critical Theory: An Analysis of Horkheimer and Cox's Setting of the ‘Critical’ Divide
Robert W. Cox's dictum that ‘(t)heory is for someone and for some purpose’ (emphasis in the original) is said to be the most-quoted line in International Relations (IR) theory. Yet whilst this spurred a revolution in critical thinking in IR, it echoed a far older conception of Critical Theory advanced by Max Horkheimer in the 1930s that claimed there is ‘no theory of society ... that does not contain political motivations'. Both sentiments emphas…
Global Climate Change Justice: From Rawls’ Law of Peoples to Honneth’s Conditions of Freedom
The problem of global climate changes has raised fundamental questions of justice in world politics centered around the vast discrepancies between the causes and the effects of global warming and the uneven levels of consumption/enjoyment of fossil fuels. The overwhelming majority of approaches in environmental ethics have focused on either distributive justice or rights-based frameworks. Climate change justice, however, can be explored through a…
Agentic misrecognition in world politics
The phenomenon of misrecognition has been analysed under various angles by philosophy, political theory, sociology and lately also by international relations (IR). In IR, (mis)recognition is mainly understood as either status denial (i.e. denial of legal state recognition), inflated honor pretentions (including positive self-images, mythical narratives of the past, Great Power projections and so on), or as a denial of vital conditions necessary f…
Dialectical tensions: Marcuse, Dunayevskaya and the problems of the age
There has been a resurgence of interest in the work of Raya Dunayevskaya and Herbert Marcuse, particularly regarding their shared concern with humanism and dialectics. Recent edited collections on Dunayevskaya's correspondence have, however, drawn a sharp contrast between the conceptions of the dialectical method: Dunayesvkaya, who emphasized the need for 'philosophic new beginnings' to offer a new relationship between theory and practice, and He…
Death to Tyrants’: Self-Defence, Human Rights and Tyrannicide-Part II
This is the final part of a series of two papers that have examined the conceptual development of the philosophical justifications for tyrannicide. While part I focused on the classical, medieval, and liberal justifications for tyrannicide, Part II aims to provide the tentative outlines of a contemporary model of tyrannicide in world politics. It is contended that a reinvigorated conception of self-defence, when coupled with the modern understand…
Death to Tyrants’: The Political Philosophy of Tyrannicide—Part I
This paper examines the conceptual development of the philosophical justifications for tyrannicide. It posits that the political philosophy of tyrannicide can be categorised into three distinct periods or models, the classical, medieval, and liberal, respectively. It argues that each model contained unique themes and principles that justified tyrannicide in that period; the classical, through the importance attached to public life and the functio…
Death to Tyrants’: The Political Philosophy of Tyrannicide—Part I
This paper examines the conceptual development of the philosophical justifications for tyrannicide. It posits that the political philosophy of tyrannicide can be categorised into three distinct periods or models, the classical, medieval, and liberal, respectively. It argues that each model contained unique themes and principles that justified tyrannicide in that period; the classical, through the importance attached to public life and the functio…
Death to Tyrants’: Self-Defence, Human Rights and Tyrannicide-Part II
This is the final part of a series of two papers that have examined the conceptual development of the philosophical justifications for tyrannicide. While part I focused on the classical, medieval, and liberal justifications for tyrannicide, Part II aims to provide the tentative outlines of a contemporary model of tyrannicide in world politics. It is contended that a reinvigorated conception of self-defence, when coupled with the modern understand…
Negativity and Open-Endedness in the Dialectic of World Politics
This article illustrates the importance of negativity within the dialectical method, aiming to bring clarity to what has been rendered unnecessarily mystical within recent revisions of dialectics, particular in the conception of “meta-dialectics.” The negative element in dialectics, where in the movement of sublation the subject remains undetermined and nonidentical, is argued to be the productive moment in the dialectical movement that leads to …
Reclaiming the Utopian imaginary in IR theory
This article aims to reinvigorate the utopian imagination as a vital and necessary component in IR theory. Since the First Great Debate between the Realists and the Utopianists (or more accurately, the Liberal-Internationalists) the utopian tradition has been viewed as being both subjective and arbitrary, leading to its dismissal as vain idealism in world politics. This article re-interrogates the arguments of Carr and Morgenthau and finds that t…
Critical Theory and World Politics: Citizenship, Sovereignty and Humanity by Andrew Linklater
An Interview with Andrew Linklater
Andrew Linklater is one of the leading thinkers in Critical International Relations Theory. He joined the Department of International Politics at the University of Aberystwyth as the 10 th Woodrow Wilson Professor in 2000 and has also taught at Keele University, the University of Tasmania and Monash University. He is a member of the Academy of Learned Societies in The Social Sciences and a Fellow of the British Academy. His publications include: …
Two New Interpretations of Adorno: Pippin and Honneth
Towards a social-relational dialectic for world politics
Dialectics remains an underutilized methodology in contemporary IR theory, which represents a significant limitation to the study of world politics, particularly in under-standing processes of transformation and change — an oversight that this article intends to redress. This article has two primary goals. First, it aims to reconstruct and build upon the small but robust debate concerning the validity of dialectics in IR that has been championed …
Critical Theory in International Relations and Security Studies: Interviews and Reflections
Twenty years have passed since the publication of Ken Booth’s seminal essay ‘Security and Emancipation’ (1991). It has been 16 years since Ken Booth and Richard Wyn Jones offered the fi rst post-graduate level course on ‘Critical Security Studies (CSS)’ at Aberystwyth University (1995/96).2 Since then, the critical body of work produced by Booth, Wyn Jones, their close collaborators and (by now many) students has come to be known as the Aberystwy…
On the Methods of Critical Theory: Advancing the Project of Emancipation beyond the Early Frankfurt School
This article offers a reconstruction of the methodological tools pioneered by the first generation of the Frankfurt School (FS) and how they have been adapted in the contemporary project of emancipation in Critical International Relations Theory (CIRT). It is argued that the praxeological and methodological commitments of the early FS are of continuing utility in the post-positivist turn in IR theory. The paper also argues that CIRT has made sign…
To occupy is to demand
The question of making demands has become somewhat fetishized in the Occupy Movement, the one thing endlessly debated in each local occupation and in nearly all journalistic or academic commentarie
The Harm Principle and Recognition Theory: On the Complementarity between Linklater, Honneth and the Project of Emancipation
This paper explores potential points of synthesis between two leading theorists in Critical Theory and Critical International Relations Theory, Axel Honneth and Andrew Linklater. Whereas Linklater’s recent work on the harm principle has turned away from the critical social theory of the Frankfurt School in favour of Norbert Elias and process sociology, the paper observes a fundamental complementarity between harm and the precepts of recognition t…
Recognition, conflict and the problem of ethical community
Recognition has become a key theme in contemporary political, social and international relations theory. Its centrality to social life appears almost self-evident given that how we recognise others
Dialectics for IR: Hegel and the Dao
This article performs a thought experiment. We ask: what if we were to engage two venerable legacies of dialectics, Hegelianism and Daoism, to see what results in terms of our thinking in International Relations (IR) about World Politics (WP)? Would some kind of a shift, synthesis, or transformation occur, as suggested by the dialectical goal of both traditions? Our discussion focuses broadly on the question of understanding social relations in w…
Dialectics and World Politics: The Story So Far
The question ‘What is dialectics?’ is notoriously difficult to answer. Theoretical obfuscation and ideological baggage have fostered widespread misunderstandings of the concept. This article is intended to go some way in providing an answer, though one offered as a heuristic in which further developments can be made, rather than as doctrinaire statement of first principles. This introductory account of dialectics proceeds in four steps. It begins…
Global Climate Change Justice: From Rawls’ Law of Peoples to Honneth’s Conditions of Freedom
The problem of global climate changes has raised fundamental questions of justice in world politics centered around the vast discrepancies between the causes and the effects of global warming and the uneven levels of consumption/enjoyment of fossil fuels. The overwhelming majority of approaches in environmental ethics have focused on either distributive justice or rights-based frameworks. Climate change justice, however, can be explored through a…
The Necessity of Dialectical Naturalism: Marcuse, Bookchin, and Dialectics in the Midst of Ecological Crises
In the wake of ecological crises, there has been a resurgence of interest in the relation between dialectical thought and nature. The work of Herbert Marcuse and Murray Bookchin offers unique approaches to this question that remain highly relevant. In the first half of the article, we engage with Marcuse's application of the dialectical method in which he gestured to the “vital need” to push beyond the appearance of “the real” and yet lamented th…
Dialectics in World Politics
Recognition, Conflict and the Problem of Global Ethical Community
Cosmopolitan recognition: Three vignettes
This paper examines recognition in the cosmopolitan sphere of recognition – a sphere of ethical life and social freedom formed in the processes of recognition between individuals and groups across, over, and beyond, the state. The paper contends that Axel Honneth’s recognition theory can overcome many of the limitations inherent to established cosmopolitan paradigms, and, through normative reconstruction, provide a unique methodological framework…
Traditional, Problem-Solving and Critical Theory: An Analysis of Horkheimer and Cox's Setting of the ‘Critical’ Divide
Robert W. Cox's dictum that ‘(t)heory is for someone and for some purpose’ (emphasis in the original) is said to be the most-quoted line in International Relations (IR) theory. Yet whilst this spurred a revolution in critical thinking in IR, it echoed a far older conception of Critical Theory advanced by Max Horkheimer in the 1930s that claimed there is ‘no theory of society ... that does not contain political motivations'. Both sentiments emphas…
Behemoth Pulls the Peasant’s Plough’: Convergence and Resistance to Business Civilization in China
It has been widely held that China’s development was forged from a unique pathway to that of Western countries. As a result, it has been assumed that China’s historical experience of modernization contains important lessons for other developing states. However, as we show, modernization in China can be seen as sharing many of the same assumptions of development as the West. Using insights from Cox’s work on civilizations—particularly the notion o…
From International Relations to World Civilizations: The Contributions of Robert W. Cox
This volume explores the work of Robert W. Cox across International Relations, International Political Economy, and International Historical Sociology. Robert W. Cox has been a key figure in so-called critical approaches to world politics, contributing to the inter-paradigm debate in IR, pioneering the Gramscian approach to IPE, developing key insights into international institutions, and the changing nature of capitalism and the state. His more …
Dialectical tensions: Marcuse, Dunayevskaya and the problems of the age
There has been a resurgence of interest in the work of Raya Dunayevskaya and Herbert Marcuse, particularly regarding their shared concern with humanism and dialectics. Recent edited collections on Dunayevskaya's correspondence have, however, drawn a sharp contrast between the conceptions of the dialectical method: Dunayesvkaya, who emphasized the need for 'philosophic new beginnings' to offer a new relationship between theory and practice, and He…
Dialectics in World Politics
This volume explores the conceptual, methodological and praxeological aspects of dialectical analysis in world politics. As dialectics has remained an under-theorised analytical tool in international relations, this volume provides a critical resource for those seeking to deploy dialectics in their own research by showcasing its effectiveness for understanding and transforming world politics. Contributions demonstrate a number of innovative ways …
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