Chris Royer
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 160648 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Chris Royer |
| PRENOMES | Chris |
| SOBRENOME | Royer |
| ASSINATURA | ROYER C |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of St Andrews |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9441-8824 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 23 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 29 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2017 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Diversity, conflict, and normative neutrality
Outsourcing Humanity? ChatGPT, Critical Thinking, and the Crisis in Higher Education
Žižek at the Buchmesse
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…
(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
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…
New perspectives on open society
Boon or bane? Open society and polarisation
Is polarisation a fundamental threat to the open society? Are the divisions that run through societies and separate them into two (or more) more or less hostile groups problems to be solved? Or are they the corollaries of a vibrant democratic system that might legitimately be called an ‘open society’? These are the questions I seek to explore in this contribution to the special issue. My argument unfolds through a reinterpretation of Karl Popper’…
Strange multiplicity’ as a moral-political value
Recent International Relations (IR) scholarship has identified ‘societal multiplicity’ as the ontological concept that gives IR its identity as an academic discipline. My article, by contrast, addresses the question: What are the consequences, that is, the positive potential and the necessary costs, of understanding multiplicity as a moral-political value in world politics? The question is important because, in contrast to the focus on multiplici…
Giving Evil Its Due Judith Shklar’s (Ambiguous) Cosmopolitan Realism and World Politics
This article argues that Shklar’s work can serve as a valuable source of inspiration to theorise the problem of humanitarian intervention. In contrast to some of her more sympathetic commentators, however, I will also problematise the tensions and ambiguities in Shklar’s work. As such, my aim in this article is twofold: to demonstrate that Shklar’s work can help us illuminate fundamental problems of world politics; and to demonstrate that the eng…
Introduction
There is a certain irony in the fact that Judith Nisse Shklar is often portrayed as an ‘underappreciated thinker’.1 Shklar, to be sure, presented herself as an ‘exile’, an ‘outsider’ or a ‘bookworm
Evil as an expression of and a threat to human plurality
This article challenges ‘agonistic’ readings of Arendt by demonstrating that Arendt’s work can be interpreted as ‘agonistic realism’. It argues that many agonistic readings of Arendt – I will discuss the readings of Bonnie Honig and Chantal Mouffe in particular – miss the central orientation of Arendt’s thought. By ignoring works such as The Origins of Totalitarianism and Eichmann in Jerusalem, contemporary agonists overlook that her preoccupatio…
Value, Conflict, and Order
On world order and opportunities not to be wasted
This essay engages critically with Adrian Pabst’s ‘Liberal World Order and Its Critics’, Christian Reus-Smit’s ‘On Cultural Diversity’, and Hal Brands’ and Charles Edel’s ‘The Lessons of Tragedy’. What holds these three (very different) books together is that they revolve around the theme of ‘the crisis of liberal world order’. In this essay, I do not wish to dispute the claim that the liberal world order is in crisis – indeed, I accept this comm…
Fiddling while Rome burns
The value of human plurality has come under threat by, among others, populist movements. To find illumination of our dark times, political thinkers have recently turned to the political thought of Hannah Arendt. Since the concept of human plurality is at the heart of Arendt’s oeuvre, Sophie Loidolt’s book Phenomenology of Plurality promises to be a timely and important contribution to both the scholarship on Arendt and the moral-political problem…
Sustained high levels of physical activity lead to improved performance among “Race Across the USA” athletes
OBJECTIVE: To investigate physiological and performance adaptations associated with extremely high daily sustained physical activity levels, we followed six runners participating in the 2015 Race Across the USA. Participants completed over 42.2 km a day for 140 days, covering nearly 5,000 km. This analysis examines the improvement in running speed and potential adaptation in mean submaximal heart rate (SHR) throughout the race. METHODS: Data were…
Liberalism for the twenty-first century
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
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…
International Criminal Justice Between Scylla and Charybdis—the “Peace Versus Justice” Dilemma Analysed Through the Lenses of Judith Shklar’s and Hannah Arendt’s Legal and Political Theories
The present article discusses the “peace versus justice” dilemma in international criminal justice through the lenses of the respective legal (and political) theories of Judith Shklar and Hannah Arendt—two thinkers who have recently been described as theorists of international criminal law. The article claims that in interventions carried out by the International Criminal Court (ICC), there is an ever-present potentiality for the “peace versus ju…
Fig Leaves, Paradoxes and Hollow Hopes – The Politics (and Antipolitics) of Protecting Human Rights
What should be done to protect human beings from aggression, grave injustices, mass atrocities and human rights abuses? This, undoubtedly, has become one of the most pressing questions in world pol
Modern philosopher kings
Thinking about democracy in turbulent times
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…
International Criminal Justice Between Scylla and Charybdis—the “Peace Versus Justice” Dilemma Analysed Through the Lenses of Judith Shklar’s and Hannah Arendt’s Legal and Political Theories
The present article discusses the “peace versus justice” dilemma in international criminal justice through the lenses of the respective legal (and political) theories of Judith Shklar and Hannah Arendt—two thinkers who have recently been described as theorists of international criminal law. The article claims that in interventions carried out by the International Criminal Court (ICC), there is an ever-present potentiality for the “peace versus ju…
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…
Giving Evil Its Due Judith Shklar’s (Ambiguous) Cosmopolitan Realism and World Politics
This article argues that Shklar’s work can serve as a valuable source of inspiration to theorise the problem of humanitarian intervention. In contrast to some of her more sympathetic commentators, however, I will also problematise the tensions and ambiguities in Shklar’s work. As such, my aim in this article is twofold: to demonstrate that Shklar’s work can help us illuminate fundamental problems of world politics; and to demonstrate that the eng…
Introduction
There is a certain irony in the fact that Judith Nisse Shklar is often portrayed as an ‘underappreciated thinker’.1 Shklar, to be sure, presented herself as an ‘exile’, an ‘outsider’ or a ‘bookworm
Value, Conflict, and Order
Sustained high levels of physical activity lead to improved performance among “Race Across the USA” athletes
OBJECTIVE: To investigate physiological and performance adaptations associated with extremely high daily sustained physical activity levels, we followed six runners participating in the 2015 Race Across the USA. Participants completed over 42.2 km a day for 140 days, covering nearly 5,000 km. This analysis examines the improvement in running speed and potential adaptation in mean submaximal heart rate (SHR) throughout the race. METHODS: Data were…
Liberalism for the twenty-first century
Justice in conflict
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…
International Criminal Justice Between Scylla and Charybdis—the “Peace Versus Justice” Dilemma Analysed Through the Lenses of Judith Shklar’s and Hannah Arendt’s Legal and Political Theories
The present article discusses the “peace versus justice” dilemma in international criminal justice through the lenses of the respective legal (and political) theories of Judith Shklar and Hannah Arendt—two thinkers who have recently been described as theorists of international criminal law. The article claims that in interventions carried out by the International Criminal Court (ICC), there is an ever-present potentiality for the “peace versus ju…
Liberalism for the twenty-first century
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
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…
Fiddling while Rome burns
The value of human plurality has come under threat by, among others, populist movements. To find illumination of our dark times, political thinkers have recently turned to the political thought of Hannah Arendt. Since the concept of human plurality is at the heart of Arendt’s oeuvre, Sophie Loidolt’s book Phenomenology of Plurality promises to be a timely and important contribution to both the scholarship on Arendt and the moral-political problem…
Sustained high levels of physical activity lead to improved performance among “Race Across the USA” athletes
OBJECTIVE: To investigate physiological and performance adaptations associated with extremely high daily sustained physical activity levels, we followed six runners participating in the 2015 Race Across the USA. Participants completed over 42.2 km a day for 140 days, covering nearly 5,000 km. This analysis examines the improvement in running speed and potential adaptation in mean submaximal heart rate (SHR) throughout the race. METHODS: Data were…
Giving Evil Its Due Judith Shklar’s (Ambiguous) Cosmopolitan Realism and World Politics
This article argues that Shklar’s work can serve as a valuable source of inspiration to theorise the problem of humanitarian intervention. In contrast to some of her more sympathetic commentators, however, I will also problematise the tensions and ambiguities in Shklar’s work. As such, my aim in this article is twofold: to demonstrate that Shklar’s work can help us illuminate fundamental problems of world politics; and to demonstrate that the eng…
Introduction
There is a certain irony in the fact that Judith Nisse Shklar is often portrayed as an ‘underappreciated thinker’.1 Shklar, to be sure, presented herself as an ‘exile’, an ‘outsider’ or a ‘bookworm
Evil as an expression of and a threat to human plurality
This article challenges ‘agonistic’ readings of Arendt by demonstrating that Arendt’s work can be interpreted as ‘agonistic realism’. It argues that many agonistic readings of Arendt – I will discuss the readings of Bonnie Honig and Chantal Mouffe in particular – miss the central orientation of Arendt’s thought. By ignoring works such as The Origins of Totalitarianism and Eichmann in Jerusalem, contemporary agonists overlook that her preoccupatio…
Value, Conflict, and Order
On world order and opportunities not to be wasted
This essay engages critically with Adrian Pabst’s ‘Liberal World Order and Its Critics’, Christian Reus-Smit’s ‘On Cultural Diversity’, and Hal Brands’ and Charles Edel’s ‘The Lessons of Tragedy’. What holds these three (very different) books together is that they revolve around the theme of ‘the crisis of liberal world order’. In this essay, I do not wish to dispute the claim that the liberal world order is in crisis – indeed, I accept this comm…
New perspectives on open society
Boon or bane? Open society and polarisation
Is polarisation a fundamental threat to the open society? Are the divisions that run through societies and separate them into two (or more) more or less hostile groups problems to be solved? Or are they the corollaries of a vibrant democratic system that might legitimately be called an ‘open society’? These are the questions I seek to explore in this contribution to the special issue. My argument unfolds through a reinterpretation of Karl Popper’…
Strange multiplicity’ as a moral-political value
Recent International Relations (IR) scholarship has identified ‘societal multiplicity’ as the ontological concept that gives IR its identity as an academic discipline. My article, by contrast, addresses the question: What are the consequences, that is, the positive potential and the necessary costs, of understanding multiplicity as a moral-political value in world politics? The question is important because, in contrast to the focus on multiplici…
(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
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…
Fig Leaves, Paradoxes and Hollow Hopes – The Politics (and Antipolitics) of Protecting Human Rights
What should be done to protect human beings from aggression, grave injustices, mass atrocities and human rights abuses? This, undoubtedly, has become one of the most pressing questions in world pol
Modern philosopher kings
Thinking about democracy in turbulent times
Outsourcing Humanity? ChatGPT, Critical Thinking, and the Crisis in Higher Education
Žižek at the Buchmesse
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
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