ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book attempts to fill the lacuna and indicate some of the advantages that accrue to international relations theorists when they widen the gyre of their fundamental thoughts about the subject by being open to these different ways of approaching it. Emancipatory international relations (EIR) the goal of the study of international relations is radically different from what it is conceived to be in naturalistic conceptions of the field. The international relations guided by the idea of a global ethical community. The book describes a second set of theories under the modernist emancipatory international relations rubric and has many thoughtful, incisive and determined advocates whose ideas have been influenced by Marx. It analyses the international relations theories of current postmodernists, notably the work of Richard Ashley, William Connolly and David Campbell and the contribution of various kinds of modernist feminism to EIR.
