Rethinking World Order : Political Ordering As Global Ecology.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Abrahamsen, Rita.

Series:

Bristol Studies in International Theory Series

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (271 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2026.

Summary:

This book is one of the first to systematically examine the debate about global order in International Relations from an ecological perspective.Bringing together an international team of expert contributors, chapters offer a well-rounded exploration of the ecological view on world order from a diverse mix of cultural and theoretical backgrounds.

Contents:

Front Cover

Half Title

Series

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors

Acknowledgements

1 Introduction: Challenges of Rethinking Order

A world out of joint

The challenge of the 'unbounding' of International Relations

Order in unitary perspectives

The unitary approach in realism

The unitary approach in constructivism

The unitary approach in liberalism

The theoretical shortcomings of the unitary approach

Ordering in ecological perspectives

Setting the stage: purpose, scope, and definitions

From unitary order to ecological ordering: a mirrored contrast

Genealogies, semantics, and the move 'beyond paradigms'

Core dimensions of ecological perspectives

Illustrative problem-​fields: hybrid conflict, information infrastructures, and the Anthropocene

With possibility beyond modal necessity

Ecological theorizing as redescriptive praxis

Networks, governance, and norms: ecologically reframed

From modal to possibilistic theories

The contribution of this volume: cultivating ecological freedom

Looking back, ahead: what makes an approach ecological?

Note

References

2 Of Gardens and Jungles in World Politics

Introduction

Antipasti e primi : neat Newtonianism and messy post-​Newtonianism and para-​humanism

Secondi e contorni e insalata : the what-​if and if-​then worlds of imaginaries and imagination in world ordering

Formaggi e frutta : planetary reform-​mongering in the Anthropocene

Dolce e cappuzzino : Titanic and the iceberg

Notes

3 Contested World Ordering: Surveillance Capitalism's Cognitive Evolution of a Social World Order

Cognitive evolution theory and world ordering

Surveillance capitalism's world ordering

Discussion

Conclusion

References.

4 The Anthropocene Crisis as Ordering Practice: Knowledge Production and the Circulation of Security

The securitization of the Anthropocene

Knowledge production in the Anthropocene

Graphs, boundaries, and strata

Scale, measurement, and co-​evolution

The ordering strategy of security

Virtual security and the management of emergence

The anthropocene subject: calculation, relation, and context

5 The Evolution of Order in a Changing World

Introduction: Back to the future?

Not your mother's Cold War

Navigating a multipolar world

The return of realpolitik

Crossing ideological lines: the need for pragmatic cooperation

Strength starts at home

6 Conflictualization as Negative Order: Patterning Global Politics in the 2020s

Theory of conflict: conflict itself

Transcending order and disorder in International Relations theorizing: anti-​order

Order as a whole: 'the international order'

Order as a (positive) element of the whole: liberal international order, multilateralism

Multiple (more or less) competing orders

Simultaneous production of order/​disorder: (dis)ordering

Two concessions and a clarification

Conflictualizations on a world scale

The conflict formation around radical Islamism, the West, and terror/​GWOT

Russia versus the West culminating in the Ukraine wars of 2014 and 2022ff

China-​US

7 Multilateralism as Ordering: A Conceptual Exploration

Conceptual analysis and the uses of concepts

Grammatical investigation as methodized reconstruction of meaning

The grammar of multilateralism

The contestation of multilateralism

8 Global Economic Orders: Towards Pluralism in Finance.

Introduction

Unitary perspectives on a liberal international economic order and their limitations

Second Image IPE as an ecological approach towards international economic orders

Application: international, transnational, and comparative facets of global financial orders

Conclusion: Towards analytical and normative pluralism in international economic orders

9 Pan-​Africanism, Recognition, and World Orders

The liberal international order as a hierarchical recognition order

Pan-​Africanism and the struggle for racial recognition

Pan-​Africanism and the struggle for sovereign recognition

Pan-​African discontent and contestation in the liberal world order

10 War and Order

Establishing ethics and norms of warfare: practice and law

Battlefield boundaries and the meaning of military victory

Fighting to a sustainable equilibrium

Limitations of legal norm-​making

Expansive vs restrictive conceptions of war

When do cyber-​attacks constitute acts of 'war'?

Implications of being 'war'

Defining 'war' indirectly

Analytic and practical roles of enforcement and punishment

The ordering function of war

11 Conclusion: Towards a Theory of Ecological Ordering

Epistemic evolution and the dynamics of practices

The operative dialectics of conflict and cooperation

Beyond fixed categories: embracing emergence and differentiation

Empirical manifestations of ecological ordering processes

Conflict and cooperation in action

Economic and geopolitical transformation

Environmental challenges and the Anthropocene

Theorizing ecological ordering processes

The grammar of unitary theorizing

The ontological form of unity

The epistemic closure of observation.

The semantics of order

The reflexive blind spot of semantics

From semantic closure to operative opening

From observation to operation

Observation as operation

The re-​entry of distinction

From semantics to ecology

Theory as environment

From observation to participation

Ecological theorizing: forms, resonances, and contingencies

From operation to ecology

Form: the operativity of boundaries

Resonance: the temporal logic of coexistence

Contingency: world politics as open temporality

The ecology of theory

Conclusion: From order to ordering and the ecology of theory itself

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-5292-5134-6

OCLC:

1585501292