ABSTRACT
For the purposes of rethinking international politics as part of global phenomena, Kant's writings offer unique and rich resources within the tradition from which one may draw and regenerate International Relations (IR) theory for contemporary circumstances. The necessity of the international politics of IR for Kant is premised on what he believes holds as an a priori truth in the work of his critical enterprise, that reason and the practical world, respectively, are each singular and unified. Throughout its historical development, the discipline of IR has been deeply troubled at the level of theory. The modern theoretical traditions from which IR emanates focus on politics as problems of freedom. Rather than trying to develop a more critical universe and more critical vision of the subject in that universe, then, it appears necessary that critique take its guide more from the attitude Kant identifies in Enlightenment and less so in terms of who is to engage in this process and where.
