This is a volume that only Emanuel Adler could inspire. One of the unheralded effects of Adler's distinguish career has been his ability to provoke, challenge, and energize those near and far to push the limits of their thinking and see a world filled with the patterns and contingencies. This remarkable collection of essays is much more than a festshrift. It shows how Adler's work, and his masterpiece, World Ordering, continue to plant the seeds for the wondrously unexpected. Michael Barnett, University Professor of International Affairs and Political Science, George Washington University
Preface; List of tables; 1. Cognitive evolution and world ordering: opening new vistas Vincent Pouliot, Markus Kornprobst and Piki Ish-Shalom; 2. Power in communitarian evolution Stefano Guzzini; 3. In consideration of evolving matters: a new materialist addition to Emanuel Adler's cognitive evolution Alena Drieschova; 4. The phenomenology of cognitive evolution Simon Frankel Pratt; 5. Narratives in cognitive evolution: the importance of discourse in meaning-making processes Maïka Sondarjee; 6. Cognitive evolution and the social construction of complexity Peter M. Haas; 7. Refugees and their allies as agents of progress: knowledge and power in forbidden boundary regions Beverly Crawford; 8. Holding the middle ground: cognitive evolution and progress Christian Reus-Smit; 9. Conclusion: on world ordering's new vistas and a rough sketch of cognitive evolution's theory of politics Emanuel Adler.