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Snapshots from Home

Mind, Action and Strategy in an Uncertain World

Karin M Fierke author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Bristol University Press

Published:25th Jan '22

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Taking a broadly interdisciplinary approach, this book provides a unique angle on the COVID-19 pandemic and its implications for global theory and practice. The book bridges two important debates regarding the relevance of quantum theory to the social sciences, and the pressing need for a more global international relations (IR). It brings the parallels between quantum physics and ancient Asian traditions – Daoism, Buddhism and Hinduism – to an investigation of mind, action and strategy in conditions of radical uncertainty. Engaging with both theory and real-world problems, including climate change, the COVID-19 pandemic and economic and racial inequality, this book explores what it might mean to successfully navigate the potentials of a post-pandemic world.

“[E]rudite, insightful, original, and provocative … provides us not only with a compelling case for multi-perspectivism, but also a broader vocabulary for developing a genuinely global IR.” Journal of International Political Theory

ISBN: 9781529222623

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302 pages