The Time of Global Politics

Christopher McIntosh is Assistant Professor of Politics at Bard College. His research focuses on developing a concept of time, war, and social theory in international politics, and he is one of the first IR scholars to establish time and temporality as a separate area of research inquiry and theory.

• 1. Theorizing with the present: past, present, and future in international politics; 2. The temporal imaginary of international relations; 3. A presentist approach to international relations: a toolkit for political analysis; 4. The temporality of IR theories: global politics from the present; 5. The time of war; 6. Making America great again, again, and again; 7. Beyond disciplinary prediction: alternative futures; 8. Theorizing responsibly: temporality, positionality, and difference; Conclusion: toward an intellectual ethos for time scholarship in global politics.

'McIntosh brings a new temporal orientation for studies of international politics, importantly encouraging us to embrace a conscious humility in our work and selves, a welcomed intellectual move, not least given the challenges we all face.' Kathryn M. Fisher, Johns Hopkins University