Pessimism in International Relations

Provocations, Possibilities, Politics

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

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This volume explores the past, present and future of pessimism in International Relations. 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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2020-08-14
Mått148 x 210 x 19 mm
Vikt316 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SeriePalgrave Studies in International Relations
Antal sidor215
FörlagSpringer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN9783030217822

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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