Hutchings, Kimberly. <br/><br/>
Time and world politics  Thinking the present. 

 - Manchester :  Manchester University Press,  (c)2008. 
 - 1 online resource (209 pages) 
 - Reappraising the Political S. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>9780719073021; 9780719073021; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; PART I THEORIES OF WORLD-POLITICALTIME; 1Introduction to the question of world-political time; 2 From fortune to history; 3 Against historicism; PART I I DIAGNOSING THE TIMES; 4 Prophecies and predictions; 5 Time for democracy; 6 Apocalyptic times; 7 Thinking the present; Bibliography; Index. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781847792181 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Political science--Philosophy.<br/>Time.<br/>World politics.<br/>Political science--Philosophy.<br/>Time.<br/>World politics.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>JA71  / .T564 2008