Raskolnikov’s Realism

At the end of Crime and Punishment, Dostoyevsky’s masterpiece, we find a moment when the main character (and at this point, our friend) Raskolnikov dreams about the international. He is … Continue Reading →


"Square Gathering" by Kazuya Akimoto

On the So-called ‘Aesthetic Turn’

1. There is much talk about an ‘aesthetic turn’ in the academic discipline of International Relations. Just what this means is not clear at all.