We need new analytical tools to understand the turbulent times in which we live, and identify the directions in which international politics will evolve. This volume discusses how engaging with Emanuel Adler's social theory of cognitive evolution could potentially achieve these objectives. Eminent scholars of International Relations explore various aspects of Adler's theory, evaluating its potential contributions to the study of world orders and IR theory more generally. Each chapter focuses on a different aspect of the social theory of cognitive evolution, such as power, morality, materiality, narratives, and practices, and identifies new theoretical vistas that help break new ground in International Relations. In the concluding chapter, Adler responds, engaging in a rich dialogue with the contributors. This volume will appeal to scholars and advanced students of International Relations theory, especially evolutionary and constructivist approaches.
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Preface; List of tables; 1. Cognitive evolution and world ordering: opening new vistas Vincent Pouliot, Markus Kornprobst and Piki Ish-Shalom; 2. Power in communitarian evolution Stefano Guzzini; 3. In consideration of evolving matters: a new materialist addition to Emanuel Adler's cognitive evolution Alena Drieschova; 4. The phenomenology of cognitive evolution Simon Frankel Pratt; 5. Narratives in cognitive evolution: the importance of discourse in meaning-making processes Maïka Sondarjee; 6. Cognitive evolution and the social construction of complexity Peter M. Haas; 7. Refugees and their allies as agents of progress: knowledge and power in forbidden boundary regions Beverly Crawford; 8. Holding the middle ground: cognitive evolution and progress Christian Reus-Smit; 9. Conclusion: on world ordering's new vistas and a rough sketch of cognitive evolution's theory of politics Emanuel Adler.
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This masterful elucidation of Adler's seminal work on world ordering and cognitive evolution is a significant, independent contribution to vigorous debates about global orders. It features uniformly outstanding chapters that articulate meta-theoretical, conceptual and analytic-normative arguments while rethinking and extending different aspects of Adler's far-reaching work. Peter J. Katzenstein, Walter S. Carpenter, Jr. Professor of International Studies, Cornell University
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Breaks new theoretical ground by discussing how cognitive evolution contributes to the study of international orders.
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781009061001
Publisert
2024-03-21
Utgiver
Vendor
Cambridge University Press
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
284