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Nuclear Realism

Global political thought during the thermonuclear revolution

By: Rens van Munster,Casper Sylvest

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Nuclear Realism

Global political thought during the thermonuclear revolution

By: Rens van Munster,Casper Sylvest

What is a realist response to nuclear weapons? This book is animated by the idea that contemporary attempts to confront the challenge of nuclear weapons and other global security problems would benefit from richer historical foundations. Returning to the decade of deep, thermonuclear anxiety inaugurated in the early 1950s, the authors focus on four creative intellectuals – Günther Anders, John H. Herz, Lewis Mumford and Bertrand Russell – whose work they reclaim under the label of ‘nuclear realism’. This book brings out an important, oppositional and resolutely global strand of political thought that combines realist insights about nuclear weapons with radical proposals for social and political transformation as the only escape from a profoundly endangered planet. Nuclear Realism is a highly original and provocative study that will be of great use to advanced undergraduates, graduates and scholars of political theory, International Relations and Cold War history.

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Politics of Catastrophe

Genealogies of the Unknown

By: Claudia Aradau,Rens Van Munster

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Politics of Catastrophe

Genealogies of the Unknown

By: Claudia Aradau,Rens Van Munster

This book argues that catastrophe is a particular way of governing future events – such as terrorism, climate change or pandemics – which we cannot predict but which may strike suddenly, without warning, and cause irreversible damage. At a time where catastrophe increasingly functions as a signifier of our future, imaginaries of pending doom have fostered new modes of anticipatory knowledge and redeployed existing ones. Although it shares many similarities with crises, disasters, risks and other disruptive incidents, this book claims that catastrophes also bring out the very limits of knowledge and management. The politics of catastrophe is turned towards an unknown future, which must be imagined and inhabited in order to be made palpable, knowable and actionable. Politics of Catastrophe critically assesses the effects of these new practices of knowing and governing catastrophes to come and challenges the reader to think about the possibility of an alternative politics of catastrophe. This book will be of interest to students of critical security studies, risk theory, political theory and International Relations in general.

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1136717579

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Securitizing Immigration

The Politics of Risk in the EU

By: Rens van Munster

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Securitizing Immigration

The Politics of Risk in the EU

By: Rens van Munster

Securitizing Immigration deals with the growing concern for immigration as a matter of security at the EU level. It combines an analysis of the way bureaucratic and political processes have interacted in the integration process with an analysis of how these practices are located in a context shaped by the preoccupation with risk.

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0230244955

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Securitizing Immigration

The Politics of Risk in the EU

By: Rens van Munster

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The Politics of Risk in the EU

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Nuclear Realism

Global political thought during the thermonuclear revolution

By: Rens van Munster,Casper Sylvest

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Global political thought during the thermonuclear revolution

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Politics of Catastrophe

Genealogies of the Unknown

By: Claudia Aradau,Rens Van Munster

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Genealogies of the Unknown

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