Emilian Kavalski 
World Politics at the Edge of Chaos [EPUB ebook] 
Reflections on Complexity and Global Life

Why are policymakers, scholars, and the general public so surprised when the world turns out to be unpredictable?
World Politics at the Edge of Chaos suggests that the study of international politics needs new forms of knowledge to respond to emerging challenges such as the interconnectedness between local and transnational realities; between markets, migration, and social movements; and between pandemics, a looming energy crisis, and climate change. Asserting that Complexity Thinking (CT) provides a much-needed lens for interpreting these challenges, the contributors offer a parallel assessment of the impact of CT to anthropocentric and non-anthropocentric (post-human) International Relations. Using this perspective, the result should be less surprise when confronting the dynamism of a fragile and unpredictable global life.



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Spis treści

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments



Introduction: Inside/Outside and Around: Observing the Complexity of Global Life


Emilian Kavalski




Part I. Complexity Thinking and Anthropocentric International Relations



1. The Gardner and the Craftsman: Four Types of Complexity in Global Life


David C. Earnest



2. Theorizing International Relations: Emergence, Organized Complexity, and Integrative Pluralism


Colin Wight



3. Musings on Complexity, Policy, and Ideology


Christopher A. Ford



4. Harnessing the Knowledge of the Masses: Citizen Sensor Networks, Violence, and Public Safety in Mugunga


Erika Frydenlund and David C. Earnest



5. Ascertaining the Normative Implications of Complexity Thinking for Politics: Beyond Agent-Based Modeling


Mark Olssen




Part II. Complexity Thinking and Nonanthropocentric International Relations



6. Complexifying International Relations for a Posthumanist World


Erika Cudworth and Stephen Hobden



7. Prologomena to Postanthropocentric International Relations: Biosphere and Technosphere in the Age of Global Complexity


Antoine Bousquet



8. The Good, the Bad, and the Sometimes Ugly: Complexity as Both Threat and Opportunity in National Security


Myriam Dunn Cavelty and Jennifer Giroux

9. Complexity and Stability in Human-Environment Interaction: The Transformation from Climate Risk Cascades to Viable Adaptive Networks


Jürgen Scheffran



Conclusion: Complexifying IR: Disturbing the “Deep Newtonian Slumber” of the Mainstream


Emilian Kavalski



Contributors

Index

O autorze

Emilian Kavalski is Associate Professor of Global Studies at the Institute for Social Justice at Australian Catholic University, North Sydney. He is the author and editor of several books, including
Central Asia and the Rise of Normative Powers: Contextualizing the Security Governance of the European Union, China, and India.