Remapping Global Politics History's Revenge and Future Shock [Paperback]

An attempt to redraw our mental maps of global politics through the prism of 'post-internationalism'.This book seeks to redraw our mental maps of global politics and to explain the shifting and accelerating forces that are shaping those maps. The authors suggest that the state is losing capacity, legitimacy and authority to remain the primary actor in world affairs and is giving way to a more complex 'post-international universe' characterized by diverse and overlapping polities. This book makes an important contribution to the literatures on globalization and the future of international relations theory.This book seeks to redraw our mental maps of global politics and to explain the shifting and accelerating forces that are shaping those maps. The authors suggest that the state is losing capacity, legitimacy and authority to remain the primary actor in world affairs and is giving way to a more complex 'post-international universe' characterized by diverse and overlapping polities. This book makes an important contribution to the literatures on globalization and the future of international relations theory.Yale Ferguson and Richard Mansbach suggest that the state is losing its capacity, legitimacy and authority to remain the primary actor in world affairs and is being transformed into a more complex post-international universe characterized by diverse and overlapping polities. Ferguson and Mansbach, accordingly, revise the maps of global politics and explain the shifting and accelerating forces transforming them in an important contribution to the issues of globalization and the future of international relations theory.Preface; 1. Post-international politics; 2. Theory and method; 3. Political space and time; 4. States and other politics; 5. Identities in a post-international world; 6. A post-international world economy; 7. War in a post-international world; 8. Technology and change; 9. The future. Of course to either remap global politics or explain the forces tlcq