Reclaiming Utopia in International Relations

Daniel R. McCarthy is Associate Professor in International Relations at the University of Melbourne, Australia.Matthew Fluck is Senior Lecturer in International Relations and co-leader of the Politics and IR undergraduate programme at the University of Westminster, UK.

• Introduction1. Utopia and Utopianism in International Relations – Matthew Fluck and Daniel R. McCarthyPart I: Utopia and International Relations Theory2. Realism and Utopianism: Enemies or Frenemies? – William E. Scheuerman3. Fearing Utopia: Judith Shklar and the Ambivalence Towards Utopia in Liberal IR Theory – Kamilla Stullerova4. Feminist Utopias and Pragmatic Hope: Social Imagining As Utopian Production – Marija Antanavičiūtė5. Utopia and Critical Theory: Towards an Open-Ended Dialectical Utopianism – Shannon Brincat, Emma Christie and Jonato Luciano dos Santos6. Rigorous Fictions, Unrealistic Counter-Factuals, and the Problem of Utopian Methods in IR – Daniel R. McCarthyPart II: The Pasts and Futures of Utopian Practices in IR7. On Racial Utopianism – Duncan Bell8. The Rise and Fall of Technocratic Utopias of Global Governance – Jens Steffek9. Revolutionary Utopias – Catherine Hirst and George Lawson10. Literary Utopias, Utopian Enclaves, and Utopian International Thought – Matthew Fluck11. Utopia As Critique and Practice in the Anthropocene – Aysem Mert and Laura Horn12. Orbita As Utopia: Astrospheric Infrastructure and World Orders – Daniel DeudneyConclusion13. Reclaiming Utopia for the Future of International Relations – Daniel R. McCarthy and Matthew Fluck