Emilian Kavalski is Associate Professor of Global Studies at the Institute for Social Justice at Australian Catholic University, North Sydney. He is the author and editor of several books, including Central Asia and the Rise of Normative Powers: Contextualizing the Security Governance of the European Union, China, and India.

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Introduction: Inside/Outside and Around: Observing the Complexity of Global Life
Emilian Kavalski

Part I. Complexity Thinking and Anthropocentric International Relations

1. The Gardner and the Craftsman: Four Types of Complexity in Global Life
David C. Earnest

2. Theorizing International Relations: Emergence, Organized Complexity, and Integrative Pluralism
Colin Wight

3. Musings on Complexity, Policy, and Ideology
Christopher A. Ford

4. Harnessing the Knowledge of the Masses: Citizen Sensor Networks, Violence, and Public Safety in Mugunga
Erika Frydenlund and David C. Earnest

5. Ascertaining the Normative Implications of Complexity Thinking for Politics: Beyond Agent-Based Modeling
Mark Olssen

Part II. Complexity Thinking and Nonanthropocentric International Relations

6. Complexifying International Relations for a Posthumanist World
Erika Cudworth and Stephen Hobden

7. Prologomena to Postanthropocentric International Relations: Biosphere and Technosphere in the Age of Global Complexity
Antoine Bousquet

8. The Good, the Bad, and the Sometimes Ugly: Complexity as Both Threat and Opportunity in National Security
Myriam Dunn Cavelty and Jennifer Giroux

9. Complexity and Stability in Human-Environment Interaction: The Transformation from Climate Risk Cascades to Viable Adaptive Networks
Jürgen Scheffran

Conclusion: Complexifying IR: Disturbing the "Deep Newtonian Slumber" of the Mainstream
Emilian Kavalski

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