Pt. I. Overcoming international relations -- 1. How it all started? Can it end? A genealogy of the international problematic -- 2. Learning from Alker: From quantitative peace research to emancipatory humanism -- 3. How to tell better stories about world politics -- Pt. II. Explicating a critical realist methodology -- 4. Critical realist social ontology -- 5. Double hermeneutics of iconic modelling -- 6. The normative logic of emancipation -- Pt. III. Visions of world politics -- 7. Modelling Thucydides Melos episode -- 8. A global security community -- 9. From security to emancipatory world politics: Beyond 'Nordic nostalgia'
