Posthuman International Relations Complexity, Ecologism and Global Politics
, by Cudworth, Erika; Hobden, StephenNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9781848135147 | 1848135149
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 12/15/2011
In this bold intervention, Cudworth and Hobden draw on recent advances in thinking about complexity theory to call for a profound re-envisioning of the study of international relations. As a discipline, IR is wedded to the enlightenment project of overcoming the 'hazards' of nature, and thus remains constrained by its blinkered 'human-centred' approach. Furthermore, as a means of predicting major global-political events and trends, it has failed consistently. Instead, the authors argue, it is essential we develop a much more nuanced and sophisticated analysis of global political systems, taking into account broader environmental circumstances, as well as social relations, economic practices and formations of political power.An original work that is sure to provoke heated debate within the discipline, Posthuman International Relations provides a radical new agenda for a progressive International Relations of the twenty-first century.