| Description |
1 online resource (417 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Quantum International Relations -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword: Setting the Stage -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- 1. Quantum International Relations: The Case for a New Human Science of World Politics -- Part 1. History and Theory -- 2. Quantum Mechanics and the Human Sciences: First Encounters -- 3. Mind, Matter, and Motion: A Genealogy of Quantum Entanglement and Estrangement -- 4. A Quantum Temperament for Life: A Dialogue between Philosophy and Physics -- 5. A Conceptual Introduction to Quantum Theory -- Part 2. Science and Technology |
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6. The Quantum Moonshot -- 7. Climate Politics and Social Change: What Can Cognitive and Quantum Approaches Offer? -- 8. These Are Not the Droids You're Looking For: Offense, Defense, and the Social Context of Quantum Cryptology -- 9. Quantum Technology Hype and National Security -- Part 3. Quantizing IR -- 10. Quantum Pedagogy: Teaching Copenhagen and Discovering Affinities with Dialectical Thinking in International Relations -- 11. The Problématique of Quantization in Social Theory: A Category-Theoretic Way Forward -- 12. On Quantum Social Theory and Critical International Relations |
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13. Quantum Sovereignty + Entanglement -- 14. Quantum and Systems Theory in World Society: Not Brothers and Sisters but Relatives Still? -- 15. The Value of Value: A Quantum Approach to Economics, Security, and International Relations -- Part 4. Bringing the Human Back into Science -- 16. Introspection Redux: Incorporating Consciousness into Social Research -- 17. To "See" Is to Break an Entanglement: Quantum Measurement, Trauma, and Security -- 18. The Moral Failure of the Quest for Certainty -- Index |
| Summary |
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. 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 Facing a reality which no longer corresponds to an outdated Newtonian worldview of states as billiard balls, individuals as rational actors or power as objective interest, Der Derian and Wendt issue an urgent cal |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Science and international relations.
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Quantum theory.
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Quantum Theory
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Quantum theory
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Science and international relations
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Wendt, Alexander
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| ISBN |
9780197568231 |
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0197568238 |
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9780197568248 |
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0197568246 |
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