Offering an analysis of the relation between concepts of internationalism, imperialism and exceptionalism, as well as the implications of spatiotemporal dislocation for claims about democracy, the book links contemporary claims about the transformation of boundaries to various ways in which political life is said to be in crisis and in need of novel forms of critique. Brought up-to-date by a new and extensive introductory essay and an assessment of the status of political judgement after 9/11, this book is essential reading for students and scholars of politics, international relations, political theory and political sociology.

1. Despite All Critique (2014) 2. World Politics and Western Reason (1980) 3. The Doubled Outsides of the Modern International (2005) 4. The Subject of Security (1995) 5. The Protection of Nature and the Nature of Protection (2005) 6. Social Movements/World Politics (1994) 7. Europe is Not Where It is Supposed to Be (2000) 8. They Seek it Here, They Seek it There: Looking for Politics in Clayoquot Sound (2003) 9. Violence, Modernity, Silence: From Weber to International Relations (1993) 10. Hobbes, Origins, Limits (2011) 11. War, Terror, Judgement (2002) 12. International, Imperial, Exceptional (2005) 13. Which Democracy for Which Demos? (2013) 14. The Political Theory of Boundaries and the Boundaries of Political Theory: Interview With Raia Prokhovnik (2012)

R. B. J. Walker is Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Victoria, Canada, and Professor Associado, Instituto de Relações Internationais, Pontifica Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.