ABSTRACT
How can we think of critique in relation to the international in times of profound shifts, political violence and crises? This chapter addresses this core question of critical international relations by drawing on and exploring the connections between three different concepts: horizons, traces and finitude. Together they are used to demonstrate that while critique, on the one hand, can be equated with the task of understanding why political life remains trapped within the horizon of an international order, on the other hand, it entails the problem of thinking the end and radical finitude of this order.
