Shannon Brincat is a Research Fellow in the School of Government and International Relations at Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia. He has been the editor of a number of collections, most recently Recognition, Conflict and the Problems of Ethical Community (Routledge, 2014) and the three volume series Communism in the 21st Century　(2014). He is also the co-founder and co-editor of the journal Global Discourse. His current research focuses on recognition theory and cosmopolitanism; dialectics; tyrannicide; climate change justice; and Critical Theory. He has articles published in the European Journal of International Relations, Review of International Studies and　Constellations, amongst others.

• Preface: Dialectics and World Politics Introduction 1. Dialectics and World Politics: The Story So Far . . . 2. The Dialectic of the Concrete: Reconsidering Dialectic for IR and Foreign Policy Analysis 3. Analysing Change: Complex Rather than Dialectical? 4. The Apocalyptic Sting and the Rise of Israeli Unrealism: Toward a Negative-Dialectical Critique 5. Dialectics for IR: Hegel and the Dao 6. Fanon on Decolonization and Revolution: Bodies and Dialectics 7. Dialectics in the Longer Durée: The IIPEC Model of Inter-imperial Economy and Culture 8. Dialectical Reflections on Transformations of Global Security during the Long Twentieth Century 9. On the Dialectics of Global Governance in the Twenty-first Century: A Polanyian Double Movement?

Shannon Brincat is a Research Fellow in the School of Government and International Relations at Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia. He has been the editor of a number of collections, most recently Recognition, Conflict and the Problems of Ethical Community (Routledge, 2014) and the three volume series Communism in the 21st Century　(2014). He is also the co-founder and co-editor of the journal Global Discourse. His current research focuses on recognition theory and cosmopolitanism; dialectics; tyrannicide; climate change justice; and Critical Theory. He has articles published in the European Journal of International Relations, Review of International Studies and　Constellations, amongst others.

• Preface: Dialectics and World Politics Introduction 1. Dialectics and World Politics: The Story So Far . . . 2. The Dialectic of the Concrete: Reconsidering Dialectic for IR and Foreign Policy Analysis 3. Analysing Change: Complex Rather than Dialectical? 4. The Apocalyptic Sting and the Rise of Israeli Unrealism: Toward a Negative-Dialectical Critique 5. Dialectics for IR: Hegel and the Dao 6. Fanon on Decolonization and Revolution: Bodies and Dialectics 7. Dialectics in the Longer Durée: The IIPEC Model of Inter-imperial Economy and Culture 8. Dialectical Reflections on Transformations of Global Security during the Long Twentieth Century 9. On the Dialectics of Global Governance in the Twenty-first Century: A Polanyian Double Movement?

Shannon Brincat is a Research Fellow in the School of Government and International Relations at Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia. He has been the editor of a number of collections, most recently Recognition, Conflict and the Problems of Ethical Community (Routledge, 2014) and the three volume series Communism in the 21st Century　(2014). He is also the co-founder and co-editor of the journal Global Discourse. His current research focuses on recognition theory and cosmopolitanism; dialectics; tyrannicide; climate change justice; and Critical Theory. He has articles published in the European Journal of International Relations, Review of International Studies and　Constellations, amongst others.

• Preface: Dialectics and World Politics Introduction 1. Dialectics and World Politics: The Story So Far . . . 2. The Dialectic of the Concrete: Reconsidering Dialectic for IR and Foreign Policy Analysis 3. Analysing Change: Complex Rather than Dialectical? 4. The Apocalyptic Sting and the Rise of Israeli Unrealism: Toward a Negative-Dialectical Critique 5. Dialectics for IR: Hegel and the Dao 6. Fanon on Decolonization and Revolution: Bodies and Dialectics 7. Dialectics in the Longer Durée: The IIPEC Model of Inter-imperial Economy and Culture 8. Dialectical Reflections on Transformations of Global Security during the Long Twentieth Century 9. On the Dialectics of Global Governance in the Twenty-first Century: A Polanyian Double Movement?