Overview
Invites reflection on the future of International Relations in the ever changing conditions of the Anthropocene
Mirrors conventional handbooks by offering theoretical insights along futurist conversations
Experiments with future as method, and engages with formative political emotions of our time
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Table of contents (24 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Theory and Concepts
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Themes: (In)Security
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Themes: Governance and Technology
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Themes: The Anthropocene
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About this book
This handbook offers a unique approach to the question: How do scholars write the future of global politics? Written in futur antérieur style, around the 200-year anniversary of the birth of International Relations (IR) as an academic discipline, the contributions engage in world-building and imagine different futures of IR. Set in a multiverse, 23 chapters draw on a range of possible themes and imaginaries, for instance post-pandemic conditions, the Anthropocene, and not least academic practices and the role of researchers. A concluding chapter anchors these explorations in contemporary discussions.
The book mirrors the format and style of existing handbooks, combining outlines and discussions of theories, structures, processes, and core issues in IR with an academic science fiction account of how these might play out over the course of the next century. In doing so, the book challenges IR and provides alternative imaginaries, rather than predicting future conditions for all humanity. The book invites readers to reflect on how thinking about the future has become an increasingly radical, but more than ever necessary act.
Reviews
“At last, a new genre of futurist IR scholarship has arrived! This dazzling array of speculative histories of global politics from 2022-2122 will take the reader into new political worlds and new IR theories that will amuse, disturb and illuminate in equal measure. I dare you to dive into these pages!” (Robyn Eckersley, Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor of Political Science, University of Melbourne)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Laura Horn is Associate Professor at the Department of Social Science and Business at Roskilde University, Denmark.
Ayṣem Mert is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Political Science at Stockholm University, Sweden.
Franziska Müller is Assistant Professor at the Department of Social Sciences and Business at University of Hamburg, Germany.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Palgrave Handbook of Global Politics in the 22nd Century
Editors: Laura Horn, Ayşem Mert, Franziska Müller
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13722-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-13721-1Published: 02 January 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-13724-2Published: 03 January 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-13722-8Published: 01 January 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 437
Number of Illustrations: 20 b/w illustrations, 9 illustrations in colour
Topics: International Relations Theory