Position Paper on Andrew Linklater
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Critical Theories in International Relations
Andrew Linklater
Andrew Linklater is known as one of the most influential thinkers on Critical Theory in International
Relations of contemporary times. He currently holds the Woodrow Wilson professorship of
International Politics at Aberystwyth University in Wales, UK. He also used to teach at the University of Tasmania, at Monash University and at Keele University. Among his publications are Men and
Citizens in the Theory of International Relations (1982), Beyond Realism and Marxism: Critical Theory and International Relations (1990), The Transformation of Political Community: Ethical Foundations of the Post-westphalian Era (1998), International Relations: Critical Concepts in Political Science
(2000), or Critical Theory and World Politics: Citizenship, sovereignty and humanity (2007). His works have had great impact on CTIR, giving the discourse a strong impulse towards a normative turn in IR theory, “recover(ing)” ethical reasoning (Devetak: 2009) and the idea of a universal, cosmopolitan human community without exclusionary borders. Linklater’s normative approach originated from the lack of understanding about the conceived separateness of political theory and International
Relations (Linklater: 2011). He thus developed his thoughts particularly around the question of the relationship between “men and citizen”, natural and public law, the according moralities and the tension between them, and the matter of borders and the boundedness of identities to them.
Linklater has been influenced inter alia by Kant (Enlightment, emancipation, universalism), Marx
(borders of classes, power relations and ways to change them), Rousseau (discussion of natural law and public law), Hegel (self-created freedom) and Habermas (post-national citizenship and community), approaching the topic of emancipation from exclusionary borders by investigating the possibilities of expanding communities
Critical Theories in International Relations
Andrew Linklater
Andrew Linklater is known as one of the most influential thinkers on Critical Theory in International
Relations of contemporary times. He currently holds the Woodrow Wilson professorship of
International Politics at Aberystwyth University in Wales, UK. He also used to teach at the University of Tasmania, at Monash University and at Keele University. Among his publications are Men and
Citizens in the Theory of International Relations (1982), Beyond Realism and Marxism: Critical Theory and International Relations (1990), The Transformation of Political Community: Ethical Foundations of the Post-westphalian Era (1998), International Relations: Critical Concepts in Political Science
(2000), or Critical Theory and World Politics: Citizenship, sovereignty and humanity (2007). His works have had great impact on CTIR, giving the discourse a strong impulse towards a normative turn in IR theory, “recover(ing)” ethical reasoning (Devetak: 2009) and the idea of a universal, cosmopolitan human community without exclusionary borders. Linklater’s normative approach originated from the lack of understanding about the conceived separateness of political theory and International
Relations (Linklater: 2011). He thus developed his thoughts particularly around the question of the relationship between “men and citizen”, natural and public law, the according moralities and the tension between them, and the matter of borders and the boundedness of identities to them.
Linklater has been influenced inter alia by Kant (Enlightment, emancipation, universalism), Marx
(borders of classes, power relations and ways to change them), Rousseau (discussion of natural law and public law), Hegel (self-created freedom) and Habermas (post-national citizenship and community), approaching the topic of emancipation from exclusionary borders by investigating the possibilities of expanding communities