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  title info:
    title: International cooperation against all odds
    sub title: the ultrasocial world
  name:
    name part: Davis Cross, Mai'a K.
    name part: 1977-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2024
    copyright date: 2024
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource : illustrations
  abstract: "This book recasts how we understand international relations through an examination of how the human evolutionary predisposition to be “ultrasocial” as a species impacts which political ideas succeed, transform, manipulate, and inspire on a global scale. At a time when pessimism about our current world order is at an all-time high, this book overturns widespread assumptions that international relations is mainly about conflict, power, and national self-interest. Scientists have uncovered new evidence that, as a species, we are biologically hard-wired, soft-wired, and pre-wired to be other-regarding and cooperative. Humans are ultrasocial, and yet this predisposition is completely ignored in governments across the world. Political leaders, experts, and the media have cultivated a myopic vision of global conflict, feeding an obsession on crises of the moment rather than recognizing frequent and significant breakthroughs in peaceful cooperation and overall trends in the decline of violence. This book shows how, time and time again, our ultrasocial predisposition has pushed us toward big ideas that inspire and bring us together around the power of possibility. Featuring original research on international cooperation in outer-space exploration, European Union integration, nuclear weapons, and climate change, among other examples, Mai'a K. Davis Cross shows ultrasociality at work in a range of contexts"--Publisher's description.
  table of contents: Cover -- Title -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Introduction -- I HUMANS ARE ULTRASOCIAL BEINGS -- 1 The Micro Level -- 2 Biology Meets Culture -- 3 The Social in Social Science -- 4 In an Ultrasocial World, Certain Ideas Matter More -- Conclusion to Part I -- II EUROPEAN INTEGRATION -- 5 The Federalist Idea and the European Movement -- 6 European Transformation -- 7 Optimism, Pessimism . . . and Repeat -- Conclusion to Part II -- III SPACE EXPLORATION -- 8 The Spaceflight Idea and the Spaceflight Movement -- 9 International Cooperation and the Space Race -- 10 A Permanent Presence in Space . . . and Beyond -- Conclusion to Part III -- IV NUCLEAR WEAPONS -- 11 The Non-use Idea and the Anti-nuclear Movement -- 12 The Nuclear Taboo and Disarmament -- 13 The Taboo and Its Rivals -- Conclusion to Part IV -- V CLIMATE CHANGE -- 14 The Climate Movement -- 15 The Net Zero Idea and the Race to Save the Earth -- Conclusion to Part V -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
  target audience: Specialized.
  target audience: specialized
  note: Mai'a K. Davis Cross.
  note: Also issued in print: 2024.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: International cooperation
  subject:
    topic: Coopération internationale
  subject:
    topic: International cooperation
  subject:
    topic: Politics & government
  subject:
    topic: Politics and Government
  classification: JZ1318 .D38 2024
  classification: 327.1/7
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    title info:
      title: International cooperation against all odds
    name:
      name part: Davis Cross, Mai'a K., 1977-
    origin info:
      publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2024
    identifier: (OCoLC)1382524502
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  record info:
    record content source: STBDS
    record creation date: 230908
    record change date: 20260318170136.6
    record identifier: in00005699012
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng