ABSTRACT
While I shall draw on some of the points made in the interviews, my main objective is to provide a sympathetic-critical engagement with Critical IR Theory (CIRT). In essence, I seek to cast the critical gaze back onto CIRT to appraise the direction that it has taken in the last three decades so that CIRT might be reformed in the coming years. Note that this is not simply a task undertaken so as to think about possible future trajectories; for I believe that CIRT would not be living up to its name were it to be focused only on criticizing orthodox or problem solving theory. Indeed, failure to open itself up to a critical self-reflexive gaze would at the very least flirt with the proposition that CIRT has ossified into a new orthodoxy.
