The essays collected in Between Utopia and Realism reflect on and refract Judith N. Shklar's major preoccupations throughout a lifetime of thinking and demonstrate the ways in which her work illuminates contemporary debates across political theory, international relations, and law.

Samantha Ashenden is Reader in Politics and Sociology, Department of Politics, Birkbeck College, University of London. Andreas Hess is Professor of Sociology at University College Dublin.