Ken Booth

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Professor Ken Booth has been a visiting researcher at the US Naval War College, Dalhousie University in Canada, and 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 is Academic Editor of the Lynne Rienner 'Critical Security Studies' series. He is an elected Academician of the Society of Learned Societies for the Social Sciences.

He is currently the E H Carr Professor of the Department of International Politics at the University of Wales Aberystwyth. He was very recently elected to the British Academy (2006).

In a 1991 article in the International Relations jounal International Affairs he set out a radical position which he labelled "utopian realism". Within the terminology of IR theory he is considered a post-positivist and a critic of orthodox realism. More recently, Booth has been very involved in the Welsh School branch of Critical Security Studies.

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