This book offers the first authoritative guide to assumptions about
time in theories of contemporary world politics. It demonstrates
how predominant theories of the international or global "present"
are affected by temporal assumptions, grounded in western political
thought, that fundamentally shape what we can and cannot know about
world politics today.
The first part of the book traces the philosophical roots of
assumptions about time in contemporary political theory. The second
part examines contemporary theories of world politics, including
liberal and realist International Relations theories and the work
of Habermas, Hardt and Negri, Virilio and Agamben. In each case, it
is argued, assumptions about political time ensure the
identification of the particular temporality of western experience
with the political temporality of the world as such and put the
theorist in the unsustainable position of holding the key to the
direction of world history. In the final chapter, the book draws on
postcolonial and feminist thinking, and the philosophical accounts
of political time in the work of Derrida and Deleuze, to develop a
new "untimely" way of thinking about time in world politics.
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