Shannon Brincat is a Research Fellow at Griffith University, Australia. His research focuses on recognition theory and cosmopolitanism, dialectics, tyrannicide, climate change justice, and Critical Theory. He has been the editor of a number of collections, most recently 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.