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- 1 online resource (xviii, 391 pages) : illustrations (black and white)
- Summary
- "The contributors to this volume are motivated by a common apprehension and a common hope. The apprehension was first voiced by Einstein, who lamented the inability of humanity, at the individual and social level, to keep up with the increased speed of technological change brought about by the quantum revolution. As quantum science and technology fast forward into the 21st century, the social sciences remain stuck in classical, 19th century ways of thinking. Can such a mechanistic model of the mind and society possibly help us manage the fully realized technological potential of the quantum? That's where the hope appears: that perhaps quantum is not just a physical science, but a human science too. In Quantum International Relations, James Der Derian and Alexander Wendt gather rising scholars and leading experts to make the case for quantum approaches to world politics. As a fundamental theory of reality and enabler of new technologies, quantum now touches everything, with the potential to revolutionize how we conduct diplomacy, wage war, and make wealth. Contributors present the core principles of quantum mechanics--entanglement, uncertainty, superposition, and the wave function--as significant catalysts and superior heuristics for an accelerating quantum future. Facing a reality which no longer corresponds to an outdated Newtonian worldview of states as billiard balls, individuals as rational actors or power as objective interest, Der Derian and Wendt issue an urgent call for a new human science of quantum International Relations. At the centenary of the first quantum thought experiment in the 1920s, this book offers a diversity of explorations, speculations and approaches for understanding geopolitics in the 21st century."--Publisher description.
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- Quantum international relations (Online)
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- Electronic books.
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- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- Contents
- Setting the Stage / Stephen Del Rosso -- Quantum International Relations: The Case for a New Human Science of World Politics / James Der Derian and Alexander -- Part 1. History and Theory -- Quantum Mechanics and the Human Sciences: First Encounters / Nicholas T. Harrington -- Mind, Matter, and Motion: A Genealogy of Quantum Entanglement and Estrangement / Jayson C. Waters -- A Quantum Temperament For Life: A Dialogue Between Philosophy and Physics / Jairus Victor Grove -- A Conceptual Introduction to Quantum Theory / Michael Schnabel -- Part 2. Science and Technology -- The Quantum Moonshot / Shohini Ghose -- Climate Politics and Social Change: What can cognitive and quantum approaches offer? / Karen O'Brien and Manjana Milkoreit -- These are not the droids you're looking for: Offense, Defense, and the Social Context of Quantum Cryptology / Jon R. Lindsay -- Quantum Technology Hype and National Security / Frank L. Smith III -- Part 3. Quantizing IR -- Quantum Pedagogy: Teaching Copenhagen and Discovering Affinities with Dialectical Thinking in IR / Thomas Biersteker -- The Problématique of Quantization in Social Theory: A Category-Theoretic Way Forward / Badredine Arfi -- On Quantum Social Theory and Critical International Relations / Michael P.A. Murphy -- Quantum Sovereignty + Entanglement / Mark Salter -- Quantum and systems theory in world society: Not brothers and sisters but relatives still? / Mathias Albert and Felix M. Bathon -- The Value of Value: A Quantum Approach to Economics, Security and International Relations / David Orrell -- Part 4. Bringing the Human Back into Science -- Introspection Redux: Incorporating Consciousness into Social Research / Leonardo Orlando -- To "See" is to Break an Entanglement: Quantum Measurement, Trauma and Security / K.M. Fierke and Nicola Mackay -- The Moral Failure of the Quest for Certainty / Laura Zanotti.
- LCCN
- 2021925622
- OCLC
- ssj0002926394
- Title
Quantum international relations [electronic resource] : a human science for world politics / edited by James Der Derian and Alexander Wendt.
- Imprint
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2022]
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Der Derian, James.
Wendt, Alexander, 1966-