ABSTRACT
Ken Booth spent most of his career at Aberystwyth University, where he is currently Senior Research Associate at the Department of International Politics and Editor of the journal International Relations. Besides having contributed to the consolidation of Critical International Relations Theory, he was one of the pioneers of Critical Security Studies with his articles ‘Security and Emancipation’ (1991a) and ‘Security in Anarchy: Utopian Realism in Theory and Practice’ (1991b). His emphasis on the application of critical theory to the study of security issues is explicit in his more recent book Theory of World Security (2007). Ken Booth is also Fellow of the British Academy, an Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences, and in 2004 was recipient of the International Studies Association Susan Strange Award.
