ABSTRACT
This chapter presents an interview of Rob Walker with Raia Prokhovnik. Raia Prokhovnik explains how he became interested in political theory at first, and talks about the political theorists who influenced him most when he were starting out. Several political theorists from the canon, especially Hobbes and Kant perhaps, figure strongly in the case he make about the nature and effects of the constructed boundaries between the 'state' and 'international' as political spheres. Kant is important to Raia Prokhovnik as a thinker of limits and boundaries. Hobbes constructs a spatiotemporal externality to the singular political jurisdiction that sets up the discursive condition of possibility for the international; which certainly makes him a central figure for contemporary thinking about the possibilities of some kind of world politics. Raia Prokhovnik also explains whether he had tried political theory through 'International Relations' and 'global development' rather than through the state.
