Introduction / Shannon Brincat, Laura Lima and Joไao Nunes -- For someone and for some purpose / an interview with Robert W. Cox -- Citizenship, community and harm in world politics / an interview with Andrew Linklater -- Challenging the ideas that made us / an interview with Ken Booth -- The test of practice / an interview with Richard Wyn Jones -- The 'secular' subject of critical international relations theory / Mustapha Kamal Pasha -- Vico contra Kant: the competing critical theories of Cox and Linklater / Richard Devetak -- Orientalism and The poverty of theory three decades on: bringing Eastern and subaltern agency back into critical IR theory / John M. Hobson -- Uncritical theory / Brooke Ackerly -- What is critical about critical theory revisited? The case of four international relations scholars and gender / Jacqui True -- The continuing appeal of critical security studies / Pinar Bilgin -- Beyond (western) IR theory: the post-colonial tradition and the restructuring of (critical) IR theory / Mark Neufeld -- 'Come in, make yourself uncomfortable!': Some thoughts on putting critical theory in its place / Martin Weber -- The potential and perils of opposition / Michael C. Williams -- Turning towards the world: practicing critique in IR / Kimberly Hutchings

1. Critical theory
2. Security
3. International -- Research
4. International relations -- Research