ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book has surveyed and analysed the works of the major theorists of emancipatory international relations (EIR), with special emphasis on the philosophical underpinnings of their writing. It examines the work of Immanuel Kant, who ought to be regarded as the founder of EIR theory. Kant was the first philosopher to give equal weight to the claims of reason and the demands of the natural world. The book explores the work of two neo-Kantian international relations scholars, Charles Beitz and Thomas Pogge, both of whom have drawn on the late John Rawls's neo-Kantian work. It describes the generality of Linklater's categories of exclusion and inclusiveness is problematic. The book shaping the influence of Nietzsche's writings on two recent postmodernists: Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida, and two international relations philosophers: William Connolly and David Campbell.
