International cooperation against all odds : the ultrasocial world /
"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 curre...
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Oxford ; New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2024]
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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