In this bold intervention, Cudworth and Hobden draw on recent advances in
thinking about complexity theory to call for a profound re-envisioning of the
study of international relations. As a discipline, IR is wedded to the
enlightenment project of overcoming the "hazards" of nature, and thus remains
constrained by its blinkered "human-centered" approach. Furthermore, as a means
of predicting major global-political events and trends, it has failed
consistently. Instead, the authors argue, it is essential we develop a much more
nuanced and sophisticated analysis of global political systems, taking into
account broader environmental circumstances, as well as social relations,
economic practices, and formations of political power. Essentially, the