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Why are policymakers, scholars, and the general public so surprised when the world turns out to be unpredictable? World Politics at the Edge of Chaos suggests that the study of international politics needs new forms of knowledge to respond to emerging challenges such as the interconnectedness between local and transnational realities; between markets, migration, and social movements; and between pandemics, a looming energy crisis, and climate change. Asserting that Complexity Thinking (CT) provides a much-needed lens for interpreting these challenges, the contributors offer a parallel assessment of the impact of CT to anthropocentric and non-anthropocentric (post-human) International Relations. Using this perspective, the result should be less surprise when confronting the dynamism of a fragile and unpredictable global life.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Half Title Page
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  1. Series Information
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  1. Title Page
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  1. Copyright
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  1. Dedication
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  1. Epigraph
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  1. Contents
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  1. List of Illustrations
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  1. Acknowledgments
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  1. Introduction: Inside/Outside and Around: Observing the Complexity of Global Life
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  1. Part I: Complexity Thinking and Anthropocentric International Relations
  2. pp. 28-29
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  1. Chapter 1: The Gardener and the Craftsman: Four Types of Complexity in Global Life
  2. pp. 30-51
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  1. Chapter 2: Theorizing International Relations: Emergence, Organized Complexity, and Integrative Pluralism
  2. pp. 52-77
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  1. Chapter 3: Musings on Complexity, Policy, and Ideology
  2. pp. 78-109
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  1. Chapter 4: Harnessing the Knowledge of the Masses: Citizen Sensor Networks, Violence, and Public Safety in Mugunga
  2. pp. 110-137
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  1. Chapter 5: Ascertaining the Normative Implications of Complexity Thinking for Politics: Beyond Agent-Based Modeling
  2. pp. 138-166
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  1. Part II: Complexity Thinking and Nonanthropocentric International Relations
  2. p. 167
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  1. Chapter 6: Complexifying International Relations for a Posthumanist World
  2. pp. 168-188
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  1. Chapter 7: Prologomena to Postanthropocentric International Relations: Biosphere and Technosphere in the Age of Global Complexity
  2. pp. 189-207
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  1. Chapter 8: The Good, the Bad, and the Sometimes Ugly: Complexity as Both Threat and Opportunity in National Security
  2. pp. 208-227
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  1. Chapter 9: Complexity and Stability in Human-Environment Interaction: The Transformation from Climate Risk Cascades to Viable Adaptive Networks
  2. pp. 228-252
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  1. Conclusion: Complexifying IR: Disturbing the “Deep Newtonian Slumber” of the Mainstream
  2. pp. 253-272
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  1. Contributors
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  1. Index
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  1. Backcover
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