World Politics at the Edge of Chaos

Emilian Kavalski is Associate Professor of Global Studies at the Institute for Social Justice at Australian Catholic University, North Sydney. He is the author and editor of several books, including Central Asia and the Rise of Normative Powers: Contextualizing the Security Governance of the European Union, China, and India.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Inside/Outside and Around: Observing the Complexity of Global LifeEmilian KavalskiPart I. Complexity Thinking and Anthropocentric International Relations 1. The Gardner and the Craftsman: Four Types of Complexity in Global LifeDavid C. Earnest2. Theorizing International Relations: Emergence, Organized Complexity, and Integrative PluralismColin Wight3. Musings on Complexity, Policy, and IdeologyChristopher A. Ford4. Harnessing the Knowledge of the Masses: Citizen Sensor Networks, Violence, and Public Safety in MugungaErika Frydenlund and David C. Earnest5. Ascertaining the Normative Implications of Complexity Thinking for Politics: Beyond Agent-Based ModelingMark OlssenPart II. Complexity Thinking and Nonanthropocentric International Relations 6. Complexifying International Relations for a Posthumanist WorldErika Cudworth and Stephen Hobden7. Prologomena to Postanthropocentric International Relations: Biosphere and Technosphere in the Age of Global ComplexityAntoine Bousquet8. The Good, the Bad, and the Sometimes Ugly: Complexity as Both Threat and Opportunity in National SecurityMyriam Dunn Cavelty and Jennifer Giroux9. Complexity and Stability in Human-Environment Interaction: The Transformation from Climate Risk Cascades to Viable Adaptive NetworksJürgen ScheffranConclusion: Complexifying IR: Disturbing the "Deep Newtonian Slumber" of the MainstreamEmilian KavalskiContributorsIndex

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