Humanity, Socio-political Community and Universality/ Difference: Andrew Linklater, Critical Theory and Global Politics

Abstract

Recent debates in international relations theory are largely about the possibility of moral, social and political conceptualization of the international as a distinct sphere of human existence. Critical international political theory developed by Andrew Linklater claims that the international as a historico-social reality is normatively based on the certain understanding of the relationship between humanity and citizenship which is specifically defined by a particularistic ethical/political ontology. Transforming the modern socio-political community in terms of its normative, historico-social and practical underpinnings by drawing on the standpoint of ethical universalism, it proposes a more universalistic, less unequal and more difference/other sensitive conception of global political theory.

Keywords

Humanity, Socio-political Community, Critical Theory, Andrew Linklater, Universality/Difference, Global Politics

Citation

Ağcan, Muhammed A., "Humanity, Socio-political Community and Universality/ Difference: Andrew Linklater, Critical Theory and Global Politics", International Relations, Volume 10, Issue 37 (Spring 2013), pp. 3-35.

Affiliations

• Muhammed A. AĞCAN, Dr., Research Assistant, Yildiz Technical University, Department of Political Science and International Relations