Conclusion

2020 ◽  
pp. 191-200
Author(s):  
Milja Kurki
Keyword(s):  
Ir Theory ◽  
Human Relations ◽  
The Future ◽  
Ways Of Thinking ◽  
Being And Becoming

This chapter summarizes the aims and conclusions of the work. In addition, this concluding chapter sets out five ‘light’ challenges, and related propositions, for development of IR theory, propositions reflective of the sensibility relational cosmology, as translated here via critical humanism, might direct us to adopt. Many challenges remain, but we should not feel weighed down by them but explore new ways of thinking, being, and becoming as we ‘loosen’ ourselves into the ‘mesh’ and the complex negotiations of human and non-human relations residing there requires. IR of the future will likely be more open, more interdisciplinary, and hopefully more cosmologically aware, and it has the opportunity to develop new ways of thinking and doing co-existence and politics.

Epilogue

2014 ◽  
pp. 280-288
Author(s):  
Peter A. C. Smith ◽  
Tom Cockburn
Keyword(s):  
Research And Development ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Human Relations ◽  
Global Business ◽  
Dynamic Complexity ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Ways Of Thinking ◽  
Interactive Dynamic

In this chapter, the editors present a brief summary commentary and reflective overview of the emergent themes, issues, and problematic areas the chapter authors have drawn to readers' attention in this book, and the editors tentatively indicate some potential or possible future directions for research and development of global business. They recognize that there are rapidly changing social mores and culture is a fluid but deep river running through diverse channels in the Lifeworlds and Workworlds of leaders today. They point to the perceived gap in leadership in reference to the uptake and understanding of these digital technologies and suggest that the implications include new ways of thinking as well as new competences for changing ways of working in the networked world of business. Crucially, the editors also reiterate that these are deeply human endeavors, and as such, the complexity of the technology does not negate or overwhelm the interactive dynamic complexity of human relations between leaders and others who inhabit and who view these conjoined worlds through many cultural windows.

Epilogue

2021 ◽  
pp. 359-371
Author(s):  
Tom Cockburn ◽  
Peter A.C. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Research And Development ◽  
Patient Care ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Medical Personnel ◽  
Human Relations ◽  
Dynamic Complexity ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Care Systems ◽  
Ways Of Thinking ◽  
Interactive Dynamic

This chapter presents a brief reflection on emergent themes, issues, and problematic areas chapter authors have drawn to readers' attention to and tentatively indicates some potential future directions for research and development whilst recognizing rapidly changing social mores and culture is a deep river running through diverse channels in the Lifeworlds and Workworlds of leaders today. The heroic actions of medical personnel under severely stressed hospital and patient care systems in the current Covid-19 pandemic is noted. The authors have pointed to perceived gaps in leadership regarding the uptake and understanding of digital technologies and suggested that implications include new ways of thinking and new competences for changed ways of working in the networked world of business. Crucially, the authors reiterate that these are deeply human endeavors, and the complexity of the technology does not negate or overwhelm the interactive dynamic complexity of human relations between leaders and others who inhabit and view these conjoined worlds through many cultural windows.

Desert and merit

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Miller
Keyword(s):  
Social Institutions ◽  
Personal Relationships ◽  
The Future ◽  
Ways Of Thinking ◽  
The Way ◽  
Good Deeds

The ideas of desert and merit are fundamental to the way we normally think about our personal relationships and our social institutions. We believe that people who perform good deeds and display admirable qualities deserve praise, honours and rewards, whereas people whose behaviour is anti-social deserve blame and punishment. We also think that justice is in large part a matter of people receiving the treatment that they deserve. But many philosophers have found these ways of thinking hard to justify. Why should people’s past deeds determine how we should treat them in the future? Since we cannot see inside their heads, how can we ever know what people really deserve? How can we reconcile our belief that people must be responsible for their actions in order to deserve credit or blame with the determinist claim that all actions are in principle capable of being explained by causes over which we have no control?

International Relations Theory and the Future of European Integration

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Maher
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
European Integration ◽  
World Politics ◽  
Ir Theory ◽  
Future Prospects ◽  
Eu Member States ◽  
The Future ◽  
Future Direction ◽  
Theoretical Paradigms ◽  
The Eu

Abstract What are the prospects and likely future direction of European integration? Will it be marked by resilience and perhaps even deepening integration among European Union (EU) member states, or will it encounter further instability that could lead to fragmentation and disintegration? The answers to these questions are currently unknown but are important not just for the citizens and countries of the EU but for world politics more broadly. Scholars and other observers have advanced a range of arguments to answer these questions, many of which are derived from the three mainstream theoretical paradigms of contemporary International Relations (IR): realism, liberalism, and constructivism. These arguments reveal disagreement both within and across paradigms over the question of the EU's future. While it is commonly thought that realists are generally pessimistic and liberals and constructivists broadly optimistic regarding the EU's future prospects, it is possible to identify arguments derived from liberal IR theory that the EU faces possibly fatal challenges and realists who see powerful reasons for the EU to stick together, while there are constructivists who think it can go either way. There are thus six basic positions on the future of the EU derived from IR theory. This paper identifies and evaluates a broad range of causal forces that will affect the future of European integration. The paper concludes by discussing the enduring role and value of theory in the study of international relations.

Imagining Otherwise

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 608-619
Author(s):  
Bess Collins Van Asselt
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
Youth Of Color ◽  
School Life ◽  
Transgender Youth ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
Ways Of Thinking

Abstract This article explores the life history of Sam, a queer and transgender youth of color who contests standardized futures in secondary schools. Sam's school life is rife with expectations that seek to confine Sam and their way of being in the world. In response to their school life, Sam forwards new ways of thinking of the future that rely on remaining present, contesting identity politics and questioning the contours of humanity.

International Theory Book Symposium on Peter J. Katzenstein and Lucia A. Seybert, eds, Protean Power: Exploring the Uncertain and Unexpected in World Politics

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 408-409
Author(s):  
Jacques E. C. Hymans
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
World Politics ◽  
Ir Theory ◽  
Control Power ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
International Theory ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Fresh Perspective ◽  
Book Symposium

AbstractKatzenstein and Seybert's Protean Power offers a fresh perspective on the concept of power in international relations (IR) theory. Standard IR theory defines power as control power, which exists in the world of calculable risk. But IR must also grapple with protean power, which exists in the world of incalculable uncertainty. In this symposium, scholars representing a variety of theoretical perspectives evaluate the concept of protean power as it stands now and as it should develop in the future.

Sex and the Civil War

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith Giesberg
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Moral Authority ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Federal Law ◽  
Human Relations ◽  
The Future ◽  
Civil War Soldiers

Civil War soldiers enjoyed unprecedented access to obscene materials of all sorts, including mass-produced erotic fiction, carte de visite, playing cards, and stereographs. With a series of antebellum legal, technological, and commercial developments as a foundation, the concentration of men into armies ushered in a wartime triumph of pornography. Illicit materials entered camps in haversacks, through the mail, or sold by sutlers; soldiers found it discarded on the ground and civilians discovered it in abandoned camps. Little of it survived the war, though, as soldiers did not keep it and archives did not collect it. Even so, porn raised concerns among reformers and lawmakers who launched a postwar campaign to combat it. At the war’s end, a victorious, resurgent nation-state sought to assert its moral authority by redefining human relations of the most intimate sort, including the regulation of sex and reproduction, most evident in the Comstock Laws, a federal law and a series of state measures outlawing pornography, contraception, and abortion. Sex and the Civil War is the first book to take the erotica and pornography that men read and shared seriously and to link the postwar reaction to porn to debates about the future of sex and marriage.

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