International Cooperation Against All Odds

ISBN-13: 9780192873903 / Twarda / 2024 / 288 str.

International Maia K. (Deans Professor of Political Science

Recenzje

International Cooperation Against All Odds: The Ultrasocial World presents a groundbreaking perspective on international relations, offering a corrective to dominant rationalist IR theories that are ingrained with a baked in design flaw: the erroneous assumption of an individualistic and competitive 'market' model of social and organizational behavior. Instead, Cross provides a framework for understanding world politics that aligns with the emerging consensus in other social and biological sciences: that to be human means group identification and cooperation. It further argues that the human evolutionary algorithm to be "ultrasocial" shapes agenda setting, selecting optimistic over pessimistic political ideas to succeed, transform, manipulate, and inspire on a global scale.

O autorze

Mai'a K. Davis Cross is the Dean's Professor of Political Science, International Affairs, and Diplomacy and Director of the Center for International Affairs and World Cultures at Northeastern University. She is the author of four books, including The Politics of Crisis in Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2017) and Security Integration in Europe: How Knowledge-based Networks are Transforming the European Union (University of Michigan Press, 2011), which is the 2012 winner of the Best Book Prize from the University Association of Contemporary European Studies. She holds a PhD in Politics from Princeton University, and AB in Government from Harvard University. She is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.