Breaks new theoretical ground by discussing how cognitive evolution contributes to the study of international orders.

Preface; List of tables; 1. Cognitive evolution and world ordering: opening new vistas Vincent Pouliot, Markus Kornprobst and Piki Ish-Shalom; 2. Power in communitarian evolution Stefano Guzzini; 3. In consideration of evolving matters: a new materialist addition to Emanuel Adler's cognitive evolution Alena Drieschova; 4. The phenomenology of cognitive evolution Simon Frankel Pratt; 5. Narratives in cognitive evolution: the importance of discourse in meaning-making processes Maïka Sondarjee; 6. Cognitive evolution and the social construction of complexity Peter M. Haas; 7. Refugees and their allies as agents of progress: knowledge and power in forbidden boundary regions Beverly Crawford; 8. Holding the middle ground: cognitive evolution and progress Christian Reus-Smit; 9. Conclusion: on world ordering's new vistas and a rough sketch of cognitive evolution's theory of politics Emanuel Adler.