Theorizing Liberal Orders in Crisis Then and Now: Returning to Carr and Horkheimer.
This article pursues an original line of inquiry by placing E.H. Carr in direct relation with his contemporary, Max Horkheimer. Although Carr is often cited as a progenitor by realists and critical theorists, these invocations of ancestry rarely go beyond passing references to Carr in presentist ter...
| Published in: | International Studies Quarterly Vol. 65; no. 2; pp. 320 - 331 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Jun2021
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