This book offers the first authoratitive guide to, and critical evaluation of, assumptions about time in theories of world politics. It develops a new way of making sense of the 'present' times of world politics.

Kimberly Hutchings is Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics

Acknowledgements
Part One: Theories of world political time
1. Introduction to the question of world political time
2. From fortune to history
3. Against historicism
Part Two: diagnosing the times
4. Prophecies and predictions
5. Time for democracy
6. Apocalyptic times
7. Thinking the present
Bibliography
Index