Roger D. Spegele has a PhD from the University of Chicago, USA, and is the author of Political Realism in International Theory (Cambridge University Press). In his academic career he has specialized in international politics, international relations theory and ethics.

In this challenging volume, Roger Spegele develops a framework to help the reader understand the differences and commonalities in modernist and postmodernist emancipatory thinking in International Relations.

1. Emancipatory International Relations: A First Cut 2. Between Rationalism and Empiricism: An Emancipatory Reading of Immanuel Kant's International Relations 3. Neo-Kantian Emancipatory Visions and Revisions 4. Marxism, Linklater and Critical Theory 5. Nietzsche: Founder of Postmodernism? 6. Postmodernist International Relations Discourse 7. Feminist Tensions in the Shadows of Modernist International Relations Theory 8. Postmodernist International Relations Feminist Theory: Can One Avoid the Maelstrom? 9. Conclusion