Posthuman International Relations: Complexity, Ecologism and Global Politics

by Stephen Hobden and Erika Cudworth

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1848135157
• ISBN13: 9781848135154
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: Zed Books
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.4"