Pessimism in International Relations : Provocations, Possibilities, Politics /
This volume explores the past, present and future of pessimism in International Relations. It seeks to differentiate pessimism from cynicism and fatalism and assess its possibilities as a respectable perspective on national and international politics. The book traces the origins of pessimism in poli...
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2020
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2020 |
| Series: | Palgrave Studies in International Relations
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction: The Problems of Pessimism
- 2. Pessimism in International Relations
- 3. The Romance of Realism: Pessimism as Tragedy
- 4. Cassirer, Fatalism and Political Myth: Historical Lessons in the Consequences of Pessimism for International Relations
- 5. Liberal Pessimism: An Intellectual History of Suspicion in the Cold War
- 6. Productive Pessimism: Rehabilitating John Herz's Survival Research for the Anthropocene
- 7. The Global Politics of Ugly Feelings: Pessimism and Resentment in a Mimetic World
- 8. Pessimism and the US Alt-Right: Knowledge, Power, Race and Time
- 9. The Pessimism of the Shipwreck: Theorising Migration in International Relations
- 10. The Pessimism Traps of Indigenous Resurgence
- 11. After Pessimism? Affirmative Approaches to the Anthropocene
- 12. Afterword: The New Pessimism in Twenty-First Century World Politics