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Record Nr.

UNINA9910957621903321

Autore

Hutchings Kimberly <1960->

Titolo

Time and world politics : thinking the present / / Kimberly Hutchings

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester ; ; New York, : Manchester University Press, : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave Macmillan, c2008

ISBN

9781847796455

1847796451

9781781701447

178170144X

9781847792181

1847792189

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (209 p.)

Collana

Reappraising the Political

Reappraising the political

Disciplina

320.01

Soggetti

Political science - Philosophy

Time

World politics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. I. Theories of world-political time -- pt. II. Diagnosing the times.

Sommario/riassunto

This book offers the first authoritative guide to assumptions about time in theories of contemporary world politics. It demonstrates how predominant theories of the international or global 'present' are affected by temporal assumptions, grounded in western political thought, that fundamentally shape what we can and cannot know about world politics today. The first part of the book traces the philosophical roots of assumptions about time in contemporary political theory. The second part examines contemporary theories of world politics, including liberal and realist International Relations theor