TY - BOOK ID - 77893535 TI - Time and world politics : thinking the present PY - 2008 SN - 178170144X 1847792189 9781847792181 9781781701447 0719073022 9780719073021 1847796451 PB - Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave Macmillan, DB - UniCat KW - World politics. KW - Time. KW - Political science KW - Colonialism KW - Global politics KW - International politics KW - Political history KW - World history KW - Eastern question KW - Geopolitics KW - International organization KW - International relations KW - Hours (Time) KW - Geodetic astronomy KW - Nautical astronomy KW - Horology KW - Political philosophy KW - Philosophy. KW - Time KW - World politics KW - Philosophy KW - Deleuze. KW - Derrida. KW - International Relations. KW - assumptions about time. KW - political temporality. KW - political time. KW - post-Cold War. KW - western political thought. KW - world history. KW - world politics. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77893535 AB - 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 theor ER -