Shannon Brincat is a Research Fellow at Griffith University Australia. His research focuses on international relations theory; recognition and cosmopolitanism; dialectics; tyrannicide; climate change justice; and Critical Theory. He has been the editor of a number of collections, most recently From International Relations to World Civilizations: The contributions of Robert W. Cox, Dialectics and World Politics; Recognition, Conflict and the Problems of Ethical Community; and the three volume series Communism in the Twenty-First Century. He is also the co-founder and co-editor of the journal Global Discourse.