This book interrogates the idea that the post-war period is decisive for understanding the contemporary politics of globality. It shows that technological innovations and crucial developments since 1945 - such as the nuclear revolution, the space race, and the rise of global environmentalism - prompted reflections on the global condition of humanity and helped reshape political communities by making the world (appear) small, manageable and interconnected - and hence ripe for new types of polities and governance. This book shows that globality has prompted new forms of human association and ecological humility, but also informed projects of political and military power projection.

Introduction

[Rens van Munster and Casper Sylvest]

1 New Earths: Assessing Planetary Geographic Constructs

[Daniel H. Deudney and Elizabeth Mendenhall]

2 Terraforming Planet Earth: The Age of Fallout

[Joseph Masco]

3 Classical Realism for the Twenty-First Century: Responding to the Challenge of Globality

[Campbell Craig]

4 Mastering the Globe: Law, Sovereignty and the Commons of Mankind

[Tanja Aalberts and Wouter Werner]

5 Futures of Mankind: The Emergence of the Global Future

[Jenny Andersson and Sibylle Duhautois]

6 Anthropocene Incitements: Toward a Politics and Ethics of Ex-orbitant Planetarity

[Nigel Clark]

7 Climatic Globalities: Assembling the Problems of Global Climate Change

[Samuel Randalls]

8 Envisioning 'Global Security'? The Earth Viewed from Space as a Motif in Security Discourses

[Columba Peoples]

Afterworld

[Paul N. Edwards]

Rens van Munster is senior researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS). Located at the intersection of IR theory and critical security studies, his research critically interrogates practices of security and risk management, with a particular focus on the politics and governance of catastrophes. He has published widely in leading IR journals and is the (co-)author of several books. His most recent publications include the co-edited volumes, with Casper Sylvest, Documenting World Politics: A Critical Companion to IR and Non-Fiction Film (Routledge, 2015) and Nuclear Realism: Global Political Thought during the Thermonuclear Revolution (Routledge, 2016)

Casper Sylvest is associate professor at the Department of History, University of Southern Denmark. Combining the study of politics, history, law and technology, most of his work has examined realist and liberal visions of international and global politics during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He has published widely in leading historical and IR journals and has recently co-edited, with Rens van Munster, Documenting World Politics: A Critical Companion to IR and Non-Fiction Film (Routledge, 2015) and Nuclear Realism: Global Political Thought during the Thermonuclear Revolution (Routledge, 2016)