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Pessimism in International Relations [[electronic resource] ] : Provocations, Possibilities, Politics / / edited by Tim Stevens, Nicholas Michelsen



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Titolo: Pessimism in International Relations [[electronic resource] ] : Provocations, Possibilities, Politics / / edited by Tim Stevens, Nicholas Michelsen Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020
Edizione: 1st ed. 2020.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (XI, 215 p. 1 illus.)
Disciplina: 327.101
Soggetto topico: International relations
World politics
Cultural policy
Political theory
International Relations Theory
Political History
Cultural Policy and Politics
Political Theory
US Politics
European Politics
Soggetto geografico: United States Politics and government
Europe Politics and government
Persona (resp. second.): StevensTim
MichelsenNicholas
Nota di contenuto: 1. Introduction: The Problems of Pessimism -- 2. Pessimism in International Relations -- 3. The Romance of Realism: Pessimism as Tragedy -- 4. Cassirer, Fatalism and Political Myth: Historical Lessons in the Consequences of Pessimism for International Relations -- 5. Liberal Pessimism: An Intellectual History of Suspicion in the Cold War -- 6. Productive Pessimism: Rehabilitating John Herz’s Survival Research for the Anthropocene -- 7. The Global Politics of Ugly Feelings: Pessimism and Resentment in a Mimetic World -- 8. Pessimism and the US Alt-Right: Knowledge, Power, Race and Time -- 9. The Pessimism of the Shipwreck: Theorising Migration in International Relations -- 10. The Pessimism Traps of Indigenous Resurgence -- 11. After Pessimism? Affirmative Approaches to the Anthropocene -- 12. Afterword: The New Pessimism in Twenty-First Century World Politics.
Sommario/riassunto: This volume explores the past, present and future of pessimism in International Relations. It seeks to differentiate pessimism from cynicism and fatalism and assess its possibilities as a respectable perspective on national and international politics. The book traces the origins of pessimism in political thought from antiquity through to the present day, illuminating its role in key schools of International Relations and in the work of important international political theorists. The authors analyse the resurgence of pessimism in contemporary politics, such as in the new populism, attitudes to migration, indigenous politics, and the Anthropocene. This edited volume provides the first collection of scholarly work on pessimism in International Relations theory and practice and offers fresh perspectives on an intellectual position often considered as disreputable as it is venerable. Tim Stevens is Lecturer in the Department of War Studies, King’s College London, UK. He is the author of Cyber Security and the Politics of Time and co-author of Cyberspace and the State. Nicholas Michelsen is Senior Lecturer in the Department of War Studies, King’s College London, UK. He is the author of Politics and Suicide: The Philosophy of Political Self-Destruction.
Titolo autorizzato: Pessimism in International Relations  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 3-030-21780-9
Formato: Materiale a stampa
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Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
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Serie: Palgrave Studies in International Relations