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Ever wondered why there's a Doomsday Clock, why Big Ben had to ‘bong for #Brexit ’, or Trump promised to make America great *again*, or why ‘this time is different’, or why life seemed out of joint post-9/11, or just how time matters in int’l politics? I have a book for you ...
Chuffed to say International Relations & the Problem of Time is now out @OUPPolitics
You can buy (please!) or point your library to it (pretty please!) here: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/international-relations-and-the-problem-of-time-9780198850014?cc=gb&lang=en&
What’s it all about you ask? 2/
You can buy (please!) or point your library to it (pretty please!) here: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/international-relations-and-the-problem-of-time-9780198850014?cc=gb&lang=en&
What’s it all about you ask? 2/
#IRPOT asks why time matters for int'l politics & shows how different theories & interpretations depend upon & also produce particular notions of time & timing
tl/dr: practicing or theorizing politics depends on good timing, but differently & in more ways than you might think 3/
tl/dr: practicing or theorizing politics depends on good timing, but differently & in more ways than you might think 3/
Time nerds!
Part 1 theorizes timing as source of various ‘times', engages constructivism, relational IR, narrative, & time studies, arguing for different idea of what time is & how it emerges.
tl/dr: all time is political, all the way down, & becomes real via political power 4/
Part 1 theorizes timing as source of various ‘times', engages constructivism, relational IR, narrative, & time studies, arguing for different idea of what time is & how it emerges.
tl/dr: all time is political, all the way down, & becomes real via political power 4/
Critical scholars!
Historical institutionalists!
Quants!
Methodologists and philosophers of social science!
Disciplinary historians!
Each gets chp in Pt 2 re: how we are all trying *to time* int'l politics in theory & practice, albeit using very different timing standards 5/
Historical institutionalists!
Quants!
Methodologists and philosophers of social science!
Disciplinary historians!
Each gets chp in Pt 2 re: how we are all trying *to time* int'l politics in theory & practice, albeit using very different timing standards 5/
And are you, good Tweeps, perhaps anxious about IR as an intellectual field, vocation, or social science? The book concludes that if we take time/timing seriously, we might learn to love IR as a heterogeneous & temporal enterprise that is actually the ‘hardest’ science of all. 6/
Sound fun, bonkers, or hopefully useful? Having spent the better part of a decade on it, I hope it has something for many different IR persuasions, and that you’ll give it a look. #IRPOT https://global.oup.com/academic/product/international-relations-and-the-problem-of-time-9780198850014?cc=gb&lang=en& 7/end (until the next shameless tweet-flogging).
