Peter J. Katzenstein argues that uncertainty in world politics is best understood through new worldviews articulated by 20th-century science. He underlines the importance of entanglement, addressing the risk-uncertainty conundrum that challenges conventional approaches. This book is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Peter J. Katzenstein argues that uncertainty in world politics is best understood through new worldviews articulated by 20th-century science. He underlines the importance of entanglement, addressing the risk-uncertainty conundrum that challenges conventional approaches. This book is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Peter J. Katzenstein is the Walter S. Carpenter, Jr. Professor of International Studies at Cornell University. His work addresses issues of political economy, security and culture in world politics. In 2020 he was named the 26th recipient of the Johan Skytte Prize. He is the author, co-author, editor and co-editor of more than 40 books, edited volumes or monographs and over 100 articles or book chapters. Recent books include Uncertainty and Its Discontents: Worldviews in World Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2022), Downfall: The End of the American Order (co-edited with Jonathan Kirshner, 2022); and Protean Power: Exploring the Uncertain and Unexpected in World Politics (co-edited with the late Lucia Seybert, Cambridge University Press, 2018). Katzenstein served as President of the American Political Science Association from 2008-09, was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Science in 1987, the American Philosophical Society in 2009 and the British Academy in 2015. He holds six honorary degrees.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction: 'an imaginary knowledge of the perfect truth' meets the risk-uncertainty conundrum 1. Worldviews and small and large worlds 2. Small and large worlds, post-Newtonianism and para-humanism 3. Theories, models and methods 4. Risk and uncertainty in finance 5. The missiles of 1962 6. Global warming and artificial intelligence 7. Control and protean power in small and large worlds Conclusion: re-sizing worlds.
Introduction: 'an imaginary knowledge of the perfect truth' meets the risk-uncertainty conundrum 1. Worldviews and small and large worlds 2. Small and large worlds, post-Newtonianism and para-humanism 3. Theories, models and methods 4. Risk and uncertainty in finance 5. The missiles of 1962 6. Global warming and artificial intelligence 7. Control and protean power in small and large worlds Conclusion: re-sizing worlds.
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