‘Immanuel Kant and the Political Theology of Perpetual Peace’

The Political Theology of Perpetual Peace
Wednesday, February 7, 2018 - 15:00 to 16:30
MUSSI Seminar Room, Iontas Building, Maynooth University

Seminar Poster Kant

About the Speaker
Dr. Seán Molloy is Reader in International Politics at the University of Kent at Canterbury. Seán received his PhD from the University of Limerick in 2003. Since graduating he has been a Visiting Fellow and Fulbright Scholar at the Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University and been employed as a lecturer at the universities of Sussex, Glasgow and Edinburgh. Seán specialises in critical interrogation of IR theory, especially Realism, Kant and “Kantianism” in IR, and the international theory of Martin Wight and Hedley Bull. His interests also include political theology and IR, post-positivist IR theory and the work of certain philosophers whose work applies to IR, e.g. Nietzsche, Spinoza, Hume, Machiavelli. Seán is also one of the principal investigators on the Leverhulme Trust international research network ‘Classical Realism Meets Critical Theory: Crises, Modernity and the Return of Humanity’. His books include The Hidden History of Realism: the genealogy of power politics (Palgrave, 2006) and his new book Kant’s International Relations: a political theology of perpetual peace (University of Michigan Press, 2017).