Theorizing World Orders

Cognitive Evolution and Beyond

Piki Ish-Shalom (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Markus Kornprobst, Vincent Pouliot (McGill University, Montréal)

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Cambridge University Press
21 March 2024

Psychology; International relations; International organisations & institutions

We need new analytical tools to understand the turbulent times in which we live, and identify the directions in which international politics will evolve. This volume discusses how engaging with Emanuel Adler's social theory of cognitive evolution could potentially achieve these objectives. Eminent scholars of International Relations explore various aspects of Adler's theory, evaluating its potential contributions to the study of world orders and IR theory more generally. Each chapter focuses on a different aspect of the social theory of cognitive evolution, such as power, morality, materiality, narratives, and practices, and identifies new theoretical vistas that help break new ground in International Relations. In the concluding chapter, Adler responds, engaging in a rich dialogue with the contributors. This volume will appeal to scholars and advanced students of International Relations theory, especially evolutionary and constructivist approaches.

Edited by: Piki Ish-Shalom (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Markus Kornprobst, Vincent Pouliot (McGill University, Montréal)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
ISBN: 9781009061001
ISBN 10: 1009061003
Pages: 284
Publication Date: 21 March 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Preface; List of tables; 1. Cognitive evolution and world ordering: opening new vistas Vincent Pouliot, Markus Kornprobst and Piki Ish-Shalom; 2. Power in communitarian evolution Stefano Guzzini; 3. In consideration of evolving matters: a new materialist addition to Emanuel Adler's cognitive evolution Alena Drieschova; 4. The phenomenology of cognitive evolution Simon Frankel Pratt; 5. Narratives in cognitive evolution: the importance of discourse in meaning-making processes Maïka Sondarjee; 6. Cognitive evolution and the social construction of complexity Peter M. Haas; 7. Refugees and their allies as agents of progress: knowledge and power in forbidden boundary regions Beverly Crawford; 8. Holding the middle ground: cognitive evolution and progress Christian Reus-Smit; 9. Conclusion: on world ordering's new vistas and a rough sketch of cognitive evolution's theory of politics Emanuel Adler.

Piki Ish-Shalom is the A. Ephraim and Shirley Diamond Family Chair in International Relations at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the author of Democratic Peace: A Political Biography (2013), and Beyond the Veil of Knowledge: Triangulating Security, Democracy, and Academic Scholarship (2019), as well as editor of Concepts at Work: On the Linguistic Infrastructure of World Politics (2021). Markus Kornprobst holds the Political Science and International Relations Chair at the Vienna School of International Studies and is the Dean of the Master of Advanced International Studies. His articles appear in top-ranked journals and he has published seven books, most recently Co-managing International Crises (Cambridge, 2019). Vincent Pouliot is James McGill Professor in the Department of Political Science at McGill University. He is the author of International Pecking Orders: The Politics and Practice of Multilateral Diplomacy (2016) and International Security in Practice: The Politics of NATO-Russia Diplomacy (2010), as well as the co-editor of Diplomacy and the Making of World Politics (2015) and International Practices (2011), all published with Cambridge University Press.

Reviews for Theorizing World Orders: Cognitive Evolution and Beyond

This masterful elucidation of Adler's seminal work on world ordering and cognitive evolution is a significant, independent contribution to vigorous debates about global orders. It features uniformly outstanding chapters that articulate meta-theoretical, conceptual and analytic-normative arguments while rethinking and extending different aspects of Adler's far-reaching work. Peter J. Katzenstein, Walter S. Carpenter, Jr. Professor of International Studies, Cornell University This is a volume that only Emanuel Adler could inspire. One of the unheralded effects of Adler's distinguish career has been his ability to provoke, challenge, and energize those near and far to push the limits of their thinking and see a world filled with the patterns and contingencies. This remarkable collection of essays is much more than a festshrift. It shows how Adler's work, and his masterpiece, World Ordering, continue to plant the seeds for the wondrously unexpected. Michael Barnett, University Professor of International Affairs and Political Science, George Washington University