Theorizing World Orders

Piki Ish-Shalom is the A. Ephraim and Shirley Diamond Family Chair in International Relations at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the author of Democratic Peace: A Political Biography (2013), and Beyond the Veil of Knowledge: Triangulating Security, Democracy, and Academic Scholarship (2019), as well as editor of Concepts at Work: On the Linguistic Infrastructure of World Politics (2021). Markus Kornprobst holds the Political Science and International Relations Chair at the Vienna School of International Studies and is the Dean of the Master of Advanced International Studies. His articles appear in top-ranked journals and he has published seven books, most recently Co-managing International Crises (Cambridge, 2019). Vincent Pouliot is James McGill Professor in the Department of Political Science at McGill University. He is the author of International Pecking Orders: The Politics and Practice of Multilateral Diplomacy (2016) and International Security in Practice: The Politics of NATO-Russia Diplomacy (2010), as well as the co-editor of Diplomacy and the Making of World Politics (2015) and International Practices (2011), all published with Cambridge University Press.

• Preface; List of tables; 1. Cognitive evolution and world ordering: opening new vistas Vincent Pouliot, Markus Kornprobst and Piki Ish-Shalom; 2. Power in communitarian evolution Stefano Guzzini; 3. In consideration of evolving matters: a new materialist addition to Emanuel Adler's cognitive evolution Alena Drieschova; 4. The phenomenology of cognitive evolution Simon Frankel Pratt; 5. Narratives in cognitive evolution: the importance of discourse in meaning-making processes Maïka Sondarjee; 6. Cognitive evolution and the social construction of complexity Peter M. Haas; 7. Refugees and their allies as agents of progress: knowledge and power in forbidden boundary regions Beverly Crawford; 8. Holding the middle ground: cognitive evolution and progress Christian Reus-Smit; 9. Conclusion: on world ordering's new vistas and a rough sketch of cognitive evolution's theory of politics Emanuel Adler.

This masterful elucidation of Adler's seminal work on world ordering and cognitive evolution is a significant, independent contribution to vigorous debates about global orders. It features uniformly outstanding chapters that articulate meta-theoretical, conceptual and analytic-normative arguments while rethinking and extending different aspects of Adler's far-reaching work. Peter J. Katzenstein, Walter S. Carpenter, Jr. Professor of International Studies, Cornell University