Ken Booth (academic)

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Ken Booth FBA (born 29 January 1943) [ where? ] is a British international relations theorist, and the former E. H. Carr Professor of the Department of International Politics at Aberystwyth University. [1]

He has been a visiting researcher at the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island; at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada; and at Cambridge University. He is a former Chair, and the first President of the British International Studies Association. He was part of the editorial team of the Review of International Studies , and currently serves as both Academic Editor of the Lynne Rienner Critical Security Studies series and the journal International Relations .

He is an elected Academician of the Society of Learned Societies for the Social Sciences. He was elected to the British Academy in 2006. [2]

In a 1991 article in the international relations journal International Affairs , he set out a position which he labelled "utopian realism". Within the terminology of international relations theory, he is considered a post-positivist and a critic of orthodox realism by contemporary academics in the field of international relations.[ by whom? ]

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