Global Limits challenges both the current proliferation of Kantian readings of international affairs and the theoretical foundation Kant is presumed to provide

Boucher uses ideas of Western philosophy's most significant thinkers to trace the history of political theory in international relations. He ends by showing how

Mainstream international relations continues to assume that the world is governed by calculable risk based on estimates of power, despite repeatedly being surpr

This book seeks to offer a general interpretation and critique of both methodlogical and substantive aspects of International theory.

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