This book represents the first attempt to bring together the leading critical theorists of world politics to discuss both the promise and the pitfalls of their work. The authors range broadly across the terrain of world politics, engaging with both theory and emancipatory practice. Critiques by two scholars from other IR traditions are also included. The result is a seminal statement of the critical theory approach to understanding world politics, an essential point of reference for future work in the field.
Richard Wyn Jones is director of the Wales Governance Centre at Cardiff University. He is author of Security, Strategy, and Critical Theory.
"A path-breaking collection of essays written by leading critical theorists of world politics on the prospects and promises of their theory.... the book also sheds some light on several important questions about critical theory that are of interest even to so-called ‘mainstream' scholars within international relations."—Dovile Budryte, Contemporary Security Policy
"Critical Theory and World Politics ... has value both for researchers and as a text for introducing graduate students to alternative theories, not least because its chapters form a fairly coherent whole and the contributors actually take up the concepts and issues set forth by Wyn Jones in his introductory chapter."—David G. Becker, American Political Science Review
