Description
In this paper, the editors of The Handbook of Global Politics in the 22nd Century (HGP22, forthcoming 2022) reflect on the ways debates about the future(s) of IR enable and limit open-ended imagination of global politics in the years to come. HGP22 is an experimental edited volume project exploring a range of theoretical perspectives and approaches to ‘write the future’ of global politics, from the perspective of the year 2122. Written in a futur antérieur style, the book offers a number of engaging essays that ‘write the future’ of global politics on the basis of a wide range of theoretical perspectives and approaches. Written around the 200-year anniversary of the birth of International Relations as an academic discipline, the contributors offer plausible analytical accounts that extrapolate from the existing present-day state of global politics, but also narratives of the ‘not yet’, and showcase a multiverse of virtual possibilities for the future of world politics. The editors will present the concluding chapter to the book which discusses the theoretical and pedagogical approach, pushing IR to consider how we think about futures.
