Christof Royer
Biographic Data
| ID | 3955794 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christof Royer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christof |
| FAMILY NAME | Royer |
| SIGNATURE | ROYER C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of St Andrews |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Diversity, conflict, and normative neutrality: The University as a Critical Institution
Outsourcing Humanity? ChatGPT, Critical Thinking, and the Crisis in Higher Education
Žižek at the Buchmesse: Evil, Cancel Culture, and the Difficulty of Diversity
This article argues that Slavoj Žižek's provocative speech at the Frankfurt Book Fair was a political event of the first order. Described as a major scandal triggered by Žižek's remarks on the Israel-Hamas war, the speech was much more than a deliberate provocation. It provides a window into a world that had become unhinged long before the conflict erupted anew. It offers an opportunity to observe the complex relationship between individuals, ins…
Open Society Unresolved: The Contemporary Relevance of a Contested Idea
(False) Friends? On the Relationship between Political Realism and Agonistic Democracy
This contribution probes the relationship between two prominent approaches in contemporary political theory – namely, the one between political realism and agonistic democracy – and its relevance for the (as the editors of this special section dub it) ‘new realities’ of our age. The point of this article is not to deny that agonism and realism share several core concepts. The point, rather, is that if we analyze these core concepts in more detail…
Valuing Diversity Without Illusions: The Anti-Utopian Agonism of Karl Popper's The Open Society and Its Enemies
This article offers a novel interpretation of Karl Popper’s influential yet controversial book, The Open Society and Its Enemies (1945). Popper, it argues, sheds light on a pivotal social and political question: How can we value genuine human plurality without succumbing to the illusion that enmity can be removed from the socio-political realm? What we find in Popper, I argue, is an “anti-utopian agonism,” that is, his conception of an open socie…
Framing and reframing R2P—a responsibility to protect humanity from evil
This article takes issue with de-politicised and moralistic conceptions of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) and, inspired by the political theory of Hannah Arendt, develops a ‘re-politicised’ and ‘de-moralised’ account of R2P. It argues that by relying on a link between a moral responsibility to ‘save strangers’ and practical political action, R2P turns a blind eye to the political interest of powerful actors. And by trying to transform R2P in…
Justice in conflict: The effects of the International Criminal Court's interventions on ending wars and building peace
At the heart of Mark Kersten's book lies one notoriously difficult question: what are ‘the effects of the International Criminal Court's interventions on ending wars and building peace’? In making this the centrepiece of his analysis, Kersten attempts to shed new light on a conundrum that has become known as the ‘peace versus justice dilemma’ in international criminal justice—an ambitious undertaking given the complexity of the problem. In the fi…
The Oxford handbook of international political theory
The Oxford handbook of international political theory's primary virtue lies in the fact that it manages to strike a delicate balance: it serves as an introduction to and an overview of the field of international political theory (IPT) on the one hand, and as an original contribution to this field, with its own distinctive voices, on the other. The end result of this carefully compiled collection is not, of course, a clear picture of what IPT ulti…
Outsourcing Humanity? ChatGPT, Critical Thinking, and the Crisis in Higher Education
Framing and reframing R2P—a responsibility to protect humanity from evil
This article takes issue with de-politicised and moralistic conceptions of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) and, inspired by the political theory of Hannah Arendt, develops a ‘re-politicised’ and ‘de-moralised’ account of R2P. It argues that by relying on a link between a moral responsibility to ‘save strangers’ and practical political action, R2P turns a blind eye to the political interest of powerful actors. And by trying to transform R2P in…
Justice in conflict: The effects of the International Criminal Court's interventions on ending wars and building peace
At the heart of Mark Kersten's book lies one notoriously difficult question: what are ‘the effects of the International Criminal Court's interventions on ending wars and building peace’? In making this the centrepiece of his analysis, Kersten attempts to shed new light on a conundrum that has become known as the ‘peace versus justice dilemma’ in international criminal justice—an ambitious undertaking given the complexity of the problem. In the fi…
Framing and reframing R2P—a responsibility to protect humanity from evil
This article takes issue with de-politicised and moralistic conceptions of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) and, inspired by the political theory of Hannah Arendt, develops a ‘re-politicised’ and ‘de-moralised’ account of R2P. It argues that by relying on a link between a moral responsibility to ‘save strangers’ and practical political action, R2P turns a blind eye to the political interest of powerful actors. And by trying to transform R2P in…
Justice in conflict: The effects of the International Criminal Court's interventions on ending wars and building peace
At the heart of Mark Kersten's book lies one notoriously difficult question: what are ‘the effects of the International Criminal Court's interventions on ending wars and building peace’? In making this the centrepiece of his analysis, Kersten attempts to shed new light on a conundrum that has become known as the ‘peace versus justice dilemma’ in international criminal justice—an ambitious undertaking given the complexity of the problem. In the fi…
The Oxford handbook of international political theory
The Oxford handbook of international political theory's primary virtue lies in the fact that it manages to strike a delicate balance: it serves as an introduction to and an overview of the field of international political theory (IPT) on the one hand, and as an original contribution to this field, with its own distinctive voices, on the other. The end result of this carefully compiled collection is not, of course, a clear picture of what IPT ulti…
Open Society Unresolved: The Contemporary Relevance of a Contested Idea
(False) Friends? On the Relationship between Political Realism and Agonistic Democracy
This contribution probes the relationship between two prominent approaches in contemporary political theory – namely, the one between political realism and agonistic democracy – and its relevance for the (as the editors of this special section dub it) ‘new realities’ of our age. The point of this article is not to deny that agonism and realism share several core concepts. The point, rather, is that if we analyze these core concepts in more detail…
Valuing Diversity Without Illusions: The Anti-Utopian Agonism of Karl Popper's The Open Society and Its Enemies
This article offers a novel interpretation of Karl Popper’s influential yet controversial book, The Open Society and Its Enemies (1945). Popper, it argues, sheds light on a pivotal social and political question: How can we value genuine human plurality without succumbing to the illusion that enmity can be removed from the socio-political realm? What we find in Popper, I argue, is an “anti-utopian agonism,” that is, his conception of an open socie…
Outsourcing Humanity? ChatGPT, Critical Thinking, and the Crisis in Higher Education
Žižek at the Buchmesse: Evil, Cancel Culture, and the Difficulty of Diversity
This article argues that Slavoj Žižek's provocative speech at the Frankfurt Book Fair was a political event of the first order. Described as a major scandal triggered by Žižek's remarks on the Israel-Hamas war, the speech was much more than a deliberate provocation. It provides a window into a world that had become unhinged long before the conflict erupted anew. It offers an opportunity to observe the complex relationship between individuals, ins…
Diversity, conflict, and normative neutrality: The University as a Critical Institution
Sociology (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Critical Theory and Philosophy (3 works) · Global Peace and Security Dynamics (3 works)