The Handbook of Global Politics in the 22nd Century

Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Introduction—The Qurative Turn in Global Politics
	1 Historical Antecedents
	2 The Prism Event and Quration
	3 Qurative Reflections
	4 Outline and Scope of the Book
	References
Theory and Concepts
The Evolution of Global Society Theory
	1 Introduction
	2 The ‘English School’ Up to 2019: International and World Society
	3 2020s–2030s—The Transition from English School to Global Society Theory in the Era of Contested Deep Pluralism
	4 2040s–2080s—Global Society Theory in the Era of Embedded Deep Pluralism
	5 2090s–2019—Humankind Re-Divided
	References
‘The Past, Present and Future of Global Thought’ Reviewing a Handbook Chapter from 2122
	1 Part I: The Pre-History of IR 1880–2045
		Realism
		Idealism
	2 Part II: IR Since 2045—A Field Born Out of Crisis
		Paradigms
		Origins
		Silences
	Bibliography
From World Politics to ‘Time Epistemics’: New Medievalism and the Story of a Certain Scholar
	1 Introduction
	2 Veronica Eredi—And Academia in the Post-Anthropocentric World
	3 New Medievalism—Conceptualizing World Order
	4 Passing Time and Political Studies—The ‘Time Epistemics’
	5 New Medievalism and Researching the Polycentric Order—Outline of the Agenda
	6 Conclusions
	Bibliography
Herman Gorter: An Introduction to the End of a World
	1 7 Newtonuary, Year 61 Since the Conference (SC)
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	2 Herman Gorter | All Suns Rise to Set
		3 Cao, Year 61 SC
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	3 Herman Gorter | Infantile Scholars
		29 Archimederia, Year 61 SC
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	4 Herman Gorter | The Ceremony of Innocence Is Drowned
		1 Balogunary, Year 62 SC
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	5 Herman Gorter | On Time, Narratives, and Hegemony
		3 Basudia, Year 62 SC
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Themes: (In)Security
Strategic Partnerships in Twenty-Second Century Global Politics: From Weathering Storms to the Politics of Anticipation
	1 Introduction: A Bicentenary Anniversary of ‘International Relations’ and the Renaissance of Strategic Partnerships
	2 Of Far Past and Fast Forward Future: The Paradise We Lost and the Worlds We Live In
	3 The Origins and Manifestations of Strategic Partnerships in the Post-Bipolar Twentieth Century: In Alliances’ Shadows
	4 The Rise of Strategic Partnerships in Twenty-First Century International Relations: Multipolarity and Foreign-Political Assertiveness
	5 The Multiverse of Strategic Partnerships in Twenty-Second Century Global Politics: Multinodality, Task-Centred Alignment and Networked Hegemony
	References
Nuclear Weapons in 2122: Disaster, Stability, or Disarmament?
	1 Introduction
	2 The Past Understanding of Nuclear Weapons
		Explaining the Spread of Nuclear Weapons
		The Conditions for Nuclear Stability
	3 Scenario A: Nuclear War
	4 Scenario B: Stability
	5 Scenario C: Abolition
	6 Conclusion
	References
The Death and Renaissance of Diplomacy: The New Diplomatic Order for Our Times
	1 Introduction
	2 How Has Diplomacy Changed?
	3 The Pluralisation of Diplomacy and Its Consequences
	4 The Institutionalisation of Diplomacy
	5 The Trade-Off Between Effectiveness and Legitimisation of Actors and Their Diplomatic Activities
	6 Concluding Reflections: The Renaissance of Diplomatic Culture
	References
Ignored Histories, Neglected Regions: Origins of the Genosocial Order and the Normative Change Reconsidered
	1 Introduction
	2 Historical Background: The Emergence of the International Genosocial Order
	3 Central European Historical Trajectories
	4 Central Eastern Europe and the Domestic Genosocial Order(s)
	5 Conclusion: The Normative Order
	Literature
Not yet a Global Health Paradigm: A Scenario-Based Analysis of Global Health Policies
	1 Introduction
	2 Global Health Catastrophes and the Emergence of Bioethics
	3 Securitization and Global Health Paradigms
	4 Global Health Policies: Institutional, Policy, and Theoretical Questions
	5 Conclusion
	References
Themes: Governance and Technology
World-Systems and the Rescaling Geography of Europe
	1 Introduction
	2 The Breaking of the World-Economy and the Rise of World-Rhizomes
	3 World-Rhizome as Geographical Scale
	4 Europe in Contemporary World-Systems
	5 Conclusions
	Bibliography
Shades of Democracy in the Post-Anthropocene
	1 Introduction
	2 Democracy in the Anthropocene
		The Incomplete Project of Modern Democracy
		Transition into Post-Anthropocene
	3 Democracy in the Post-Anthropocene
		Two Cases of Climate Statehood
	4 International Relations today
		Current Political Trends
	5 By way of Conclusion
	References
“Big Daddy Don’t Like That!” Global Rule by Planetary Algorithm
	1 Introduction
	2 Looking Backward and All That
	3 History and Surveillance
	4 Contingent Response
	5 Are We in Heaven or Hell Yet?
Themes: The Anthropocene
The Global Political Economics of Hydrogen
	1 Introduction
	2 The Basics of Hydrogen
	3 The Politics of the Energy Transition
	4 The Dual Political Economics of Hydrogen: Green Versus Blue
	5 From Questioning Hydrogen to Supporting It…Again
	6 The Rise of the State and the Interaction School
	7 The Impact of Nuclear Fusion
	8 Concluding Thoughts
	Literature
The Degrowth Transition in Latin America: Deurbanised, Autonomous City-States in 2122—An Invitation
	1 Early Ideas for the Reorganisation of Societies Towards Alignment with Our Biophysical Surroundings: Degrowth, Deurbanisation and Decolonial Approaches
	2 2040–2070: Planetary Crises and the Rise of the “Green States” in Latin America
	3 2070–2090: The Failure and Dissolution of the “Green States” and the Emergence of Latin American City-States and Bioregions
	4 Chiapas and the Caracol Network: An Envisioned Decolonial Degrowth Society Materialised in Latin America
	References
Planetary Politics in the Twenty-Second Century
	1 The 100-Year Planetary Organic Crisis, 1970–2070
	2 Status Quo, Reactionary Politics, and Dieselpunk, 2022–2122
	3 Capitalist, Neoliberal Politics, and Cyberpunk, 2022–2122
	4 Symbiotic, Ecosocial Politics, and Solarpunk, 2022–2122
	5 Planetary Politics in the Twenty-Second Century: A Status Quo, Capitalist, or Symbiotic Universe?
	References
“Now Live from Lagos, Tehran and Oceanside”: Three B7CC Leaders Reflect on Strategies for Cooperation After the Anthropocentric Purge
	1 Anthropocentric Purge
	2 Interview with Rayowa Adebayo (Lagos Laguna, Floating Quarter)
	3 Infobox B7CC at a Glance
	4 Interview with Shirin Mazanderani (Tehran)
	5 Interview with Scott Garcia, Oceanside
	6 Questions and Exercises
	Further Readings
Themes: Culture and Identity
World Religions
	1 Introduction
	2 The state of the art one hundred years ago
	3 The Evolution of Religions
		The Influence of the Technology Wars
		Soft Technologies, Technoutopianism and Neogaianism
	4 Religion-Related Public Debates and Policies
	5 Concluding Remarks
	References
The UNCorp Quantum Mechanism for Wellbeing
	1 Foreword to the 30th Issue of the Human Wellbeing Report
	2 Comment on the 30th Issue of the Human Wellbeing Report 2121
	3 Wellbeing or Well-Exploitation?
	4 Wellbeing on Earth, Martial Law on Mars
	5 Message to Mum
Cloning God: The UN Bioethics and Human Dignity Declaration of 2043 and the Rise of Monotheistic Fertility Cults in the Middle East
	References
Practices and Reflections
An Autobiographical Reflection by Daqin Kanja Augustine Prepared for Publication by Patrick Thaddeus Jackson
Search: Physical Twin
The Origins of AGE: From States and Markets to Scientific Methods
	1 Introduction
	2 Punic Revelations
	3 A Return to the Past
	4 From Political Science to Applied Politics
	5 The First Experiment
	6 The Birth of the New World
	7 Conclusion
		The Suspicious Subject
		Devils and Madmen
		The Brethren of Purity
		Violence and the Sacred
		The AGE of Scapegoating
		Haqiqat al-Tafsir
	Bibliography
Conclusion
The Realism of Our Time? Futures, Fictions, and the Mid-Century Bang
	1 Future Making as Ontoepistemology
		Looking Backward: 2122–2022
		Deconstructing Utopia
		Fantasmal Politics, Antiessentialist Articulations
	2 The Means of Imagination in International Relations
		IR Between Pop Culture and Worlding in the Anthropocene
		Future (Im)Perfect—The Shape of Worlds to Come
	3 Writing the Handbook of Global Politics in the 22nd Century
		Timeframe and Parameters
		The Ecology of Academic Writing
		Who Gets to Write the Futures of Global Politics?
	4 There Are No Conclusions: Let Us Keep Writing Futures
	References
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements