Building a conversation between relational cosmology, developed in natural sciences, and critical social theory, this book seeks to develop a new perspective on how to think relationally in and around the study of IR.

• Introduction: International Relations and Relational Cosmology


• Part 1. Of cosmology


• 1: Cosmology - 'social' and 'scientific'


• 2: Scientific cosmologies


• 3: Relational cosmology


• Part 2. Of situated knowledge, relations and ethics


• 4: Stretching situated knowledge


• 5: Relations, human and non-human


• 6: Ethics, in relations?


• Part 3. Reorienting


• 7: Reorienting to the international, the global and the planetary


• Conclusion: Five challenges for IR and ir

Milja Kurki is a Professor at the Department of International Politics in Aberystwyth University. Her areas of interest are international relations theory, philosophy of science, democracy and democracy promotion, critical theory, and more recently scientific cosmology, social-natural science nexus and posthumanism. She is a co-editor of the journal International Relations, Director of the Planetary Challenges and Politics Centre, and the Director of Research in the Department of International Politics at Aberystwyth University.