Centre for the Study of Political Community

The Centre for International Relations is engaged in research on philosophical, theoretical, and conceptual developments in Politics and International Relations, with a particular focus on questions relating to war and the political, practices of security and the politics of fear, liberalism and the politics of exception, governmentality and biopolitical war, the postcolonial condition and political subjectivity, the ethics of war, and human rights. Members of CIR draw primarily on critical social and political thought, with particular reference to continental philosophy, feminism, and postcolonial perspectives.