ポストコロニアリズム、ポスト構造主義、フェミニズムなどの様々な思想的潮流を背景として、従来の国際関係論のオルタナティブを模索する「批判的国際関係論」の20世紀末以降の発展を概観。Volume I sets the scene. The materials gathered here trace how the space for a Critical International Relations was opened by early scholars; the theoretical and philosophical resources on which the field draws; and the methods and methodology it employs. Volumes II and III, meanwhile, bring together the major works by scholars of Critical International Relations, and those from cognate disciplines. Finally, Volume IV includes sections on questions of pedagogy, interdisciplinarity, and the responsibility of scholars in relation to the growing dominance of Critical International Relations.