Entanglements in World Politics

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The Power of Uncertainty

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

Av Peter J. Katzenstein, New York) Katzenstein, Peter J. (Cornell University

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In this seminal study, Peter J. Katzenstein drags the analysis of world politics from the Newtonian humanism of the nineteenth century into a new post-Newtonianism of the twenty-first. The key concept is entanglement. By examining differences in context, process, and language, Katzenstein specifies how risk and uncertainty intertwine. Three deeply researched case studies - finance and political economy, nuclear crisis politics and war, and global warming and AI - support his original arguments. A chapter on power further illustrates the risk-uncertainty conundrum. Entanglements in World Politics calls for humility and eclectic pragmatism, emphasizing the unity of knowledge of the natural and humanistic sciences and the complementarities of science and religion. Katzenstein's engaging writing and innovative approach make this a must-read for anyone interested in the complexities of global politics. This book is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-12-11
Mått152 x 229 x 27 mm
Vikt694 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieCambridge Studies in International Relations
Antal sidor484
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781009675772

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Peter J. Katzenstein is the Walter S. Carpenter, Jr. Professor of International Studies at Cornell University. His work addresses issues of political economy, security and culture in world politics. In 2020 he was named the 26th recipient of the Johan Skytte Prize. He is the author, co-author, editor and co-editor of more than 40 books, edited volumes or monographs and over 100 articles or book chapters. Recent books include Uncertainty and Its Discontents: Worldviews in World Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2022), Downfall: The End of the American Order (co-edited with Jonathan Kirshner, 2022); and Protean Power: Exploring the Uncertain and Unexpected in World Politics (co-edited with the late Lucia Seybert, Cambridge University Press, 2018). Katzenstein served as President of the American Political Science Association from 2008-09, was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Science in 1987, the American Philosophical Society in 2009 and the British Academy in 2015. He holds six honorary degrees.

Introduction: 'an imaginary knowledge of the perfect truth' meets the risk-uncertainty conundrum; 1. Worldviews and small and large worlds; 2. Small and large worlds, post-Newtonianism and para-humanism; 3. Theories, models and methods; 4. Risk and uncertainty in finance; 5. The missiles of 1962; 6. Global warming and artificial intelligence; 7. Control and protean power in small and large worlds; Conclusion: re-sizing worlds.

'International Relations has found its Tolstoy! The hard problem of uncertainty in world politics has found its match. Dancing nimbly on the cutting edge of the sciences and humanities, jumping deftly from the subatomic to the geopolitical, Katzenstein constructs a protean world view for navigating the political, financial and environmental uncertainties and risks of the twenty-first century. He does so with a humility and humour uncommon in academic treatises. If you are looking for a ray of hope in a time of dark fears and creeping nihilism, read this wickedly smart book.' James Der Derian, Michael Hintze Chair of International Security, University of Sydney