Introduction: sustainable critique and the lost vocation of international relations. -- "For we born after": the challenge of sustainable critique. -- Sustainable critique and critical IR theory: against emancipation. -- The realist dilemma: politics and the limits of theory. -- Communitarian IR theory: "The common socius of Us all" -- Individualist IR theory: disharmonious cooperation. -- Conclusion: toward sustainably critical international theory.

1. International relations -- Relzations -- Philosophy