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This timely, comprehensive and interdisciplinary volume advances an original argument about the complex roots and multiple politics of globality. It shows that technological innovations and decisive developments since 1945 from the nuclear revolution to anthropogenic climate change and debates about the Anthropocene have prompted reflections on the global condition of humanity and helped reshape political communities by making the world (appear) small, manageable and interconnected.

The contributors stress how human beings have transformed both their habitat and their view of...

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 Gunther 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...