Reclaiming Utopia in International Relations

Daniel R. McCarthy is Associate Professor in International Relations at the University of Melbourne, Australia.Matthew Fluck is Senior Lecturer in International Relations and co-leader of the Politics and IR undergraduate programme at the University of Westminster, UK.

"A gem of a book. Sidestepping entrenched dichotomies in mainstream IR scholarship, this edited volume opens up space for a genuinely interdisciplinary conversation around utopian thought and practice in international affairs. The individual chapters resonate productively with each other and cover a wide range of important topics, from methodological questions to issues of race, gender and technology. Not only students and scholars of IR, but readers from various academic backgrounds in the humanities and social sciences, will have a great deal to learn from this excellent and timely book.." Mathias Thaler, University of Edinburgh

• 1. Introduction: Utopia and Utopianism in International Relations – Matthew Fluck and Daniel R. McCarthyPart I: Utopia and International Relations Theory2. Realism and Utopianism: Enemies or Frenemies? – William E. Scheuerman3. Fearing Utopia: Judith Shklar and the Ambivalence Towards Utopia in Liberal IR Theory – Kamila Stullerova4. Feminist Utopias and Pragmatic Hope: Social Imagining As Utopian Production – Marija Antanavičiūtė5. Utopia and Critical Theory: Towards an Open-Ended Dialectical Utopianism – Shannon Brincat, Emma Christie, and Jonato Luciano dos Santos6. Rigorous Fictions, Unrealistic Counter-Factuals, and the Problem of Utopian Methods in IR – Daniel R. McCarthyPart II: The Pasts and Futures of Utopian Practices in IR7. On Racial Utopianism – Duncan Bell8. The Rise and Fall of Technocratic Utopias of Global Governance – Jens Steffek9. Revolutionary Utopias – Catherine Hirst and George Lawson10. Literary Utopias, Utopian Enclaves, and Utopian International Thought – Matthew Fluck11. Utopia As Critique and Practice in the Anthropocene – Ayşem Mert and Laura Horn12. Orbita As Utopia: Astrospheric Infrastructure and World Orders – Daniel Deudney13. Conclusion: Reclaiming Utopia for the Future of International Relations – Daniel R. McCarthy and Matthew Fluck