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Building a conversation between relational cosmology, developed in natural sciences, and critical social theory, this book seeks to develop a new perspective on how to think relationally in and around the study of IR. It is time for International Relations (IR) to join the relational revolution afoot in the natural and social sciences. To do so, more careful reflection is needed on cosmological assumptions in the sciences and also in the study and practice of international relations. In particular it is argued here that we need to pay careful attention to whether and how we think 'relationally'. Building a conversation between relational cosmology, developed in natural sciences, and critical social theory, this book seeks to develop a new perspective on how to think relationally in and around the study of IR.0International Relations and Relational Cosmology asks: What kind of cosmological background assumptions do we make as we tackle international relations today and where do our assumptions (about states, individuals, or the international) come from? And can we reorient our cosmological imaginations towards more relational understanding of the universe and what would this mean for the study and practice of international politics?0The book argues that we live in a world without 'things', a world of processes and relations. It also suggests that we live in relations which exceed the boundaries of the human and the social, in planetary relations with plants and animals. Rethinking conceptual premises of IR, Kurki points towards a 'planetary politics' perspective within which we can reimagine IR as a field of study and also political practices, including the future of democracy.

International relations --- Philosophy. --- Relationism. --- Existentialism --- Relation (Philosophy) --- Relativity --- International relations - Philosophy.

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"Le projet culturel de notre modernité semble parvenu à son point d'aboutissement : la science, la technique, l'économie, l'organisation sociale et politique ont rendu les êtres et les choses disponibles de manière permanente et illimitée. Mais alors que toutes les expériences et les richesses potentielles de l'existence gisent à notre portée, elles se dérobent soudain à nous. Le monde se referme mystérieusement ; il devient illisible et muet. Le désastre écologique montre que la conquête de notre environnement façonne un milieu hostile. Le surgissement de crises erratiques révèle l'inanité d'une volonté de contrôle débouchant sur un chaos généralisé. Et, à mesure que les promesses d'épanouissement se muent en injonctions de réussite et nos désirs en cycles infinis de frustrations, la maîtrise de nos propres vies nous échappe. S'il en est ainsi, suggère Hartmut Rosa, c'est que le fait de disposer à notre guise de la nature, des personnes et de la beauté qui nous entourent nous prive de toute résonance avec elles. Telle est la contradiction fondamentale dans laquelle nous nous débattons. Pour la résoudre, cet essai ne nous engage pas à nous réfugier dans une posture contemplative, mais à réinventer notre relation au monde."

Alienation (social psychology) --- Social change --- Resonance --- Interpersonal relations --- Sociology --- Social aspects --- Philosophy --- Social change. --- Relation (Philosophy) --- Human ecology. --- Changement social. --- Relation (philosophie) --- Écologie humaine. --- Resonance - Social aspects --- Sociology - Philosophy