Regan Burles is a Lecturer in International Relations at the Department of International Politics, Aberystwyth University, Wales. Previously, he was a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of Politics and International Relations at Queen Mary University of London. His research investigates questions about the relationship between human beings, the earth, and political authority on a world scale in international political theory. His current project investigates these questions through Immanuel Kant’s influential account of this relationship and its influence on nineteenth century geopolitical thought and twentieth century international relations.