International Relations and the Problem of Time

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Cover International Relations and the Problem of Time Copyright Dedication Acknowledments Contents List of Figures Introduction: Two Minutes to Midnight Politics as a Matter of Time Forever on Our Lips The Temporal Turn Two Cultures of Time Western Standard Time The Problem of Time Solutions to the Problem of Time The Argument Part I: Timing Theory and International Relations 1: Timing: The Basic Framework Introduction Prison of Our Own Making: Problems with the Discourse of Time From Time(s) to Timing Moving Beyond Idiom How Timing Works Beginning with Timing Instead of Time Timing Basics Timing Breakdowns and Responses From Timing to Time(s) The Power and Peril of the Language of Time Making Sense of “Time” Utterances The Politics in Timing The Will to Time Conclusion 2: Why Timing Matters Introduction The Advantages of Timing Theory for Time Studies Empirical Ubiquity Master Concepts Traditional Value Scale Aporia of Time The Advantages of Timing Theory for IR The Explanatory Power of Timing Theory Visions of the Future The Present Hierarchical Temporality Sourcing IR’s Two Cultures of Time The IR Project as a Matter of Timing Change, Surprise, and Continuity Timing Scholarly Practice Forms of Knowledge, Modes of Timing Active and Passive Timing in IR Theory Timing the Neo-Neo Debate Conclusion 3: Telling Time: A Theory of Narrative Timing Introduction Narrative vs. Theory? The Narrative Theory of Action Narrative Temporality vs. Time? Toward Narrative Timing Emplotment Plotting Two Cultures of Time Timing a Story: From Emplotment to Narrative Temporality Synoptic Theme Creative Filtration Cleaving Experience Concordant Discordance Explaining, Understanding, and Narrative Timing Deductive-Nomological Explanations Structural-Rational Explanations Mechanistic Explanations Historical Explanations From Narrative Standard to Timing Meter The Return of the Problem of Time Conclusion: How Does IR Tell Time? Part II: Varieties of Timimg in International Relations 4: Disciplinary History: Timing Crises in International Relations Introduction World War One Working Narrative Discordant Change Scholarly Reaction: The Problem of Time Narrative Rectification The Thermonuclear Revolution Working Narrative Discordant Change Scholarly Reaction: The Problem of Time Narrative Rectification? The End of the Cold War Working Narrative Discordant Change Scholarly Reaction: The Problem of Time Narrative Rectification Conclusion 5: Methodologies: Narrative Reasoning About a Time-Bound World Introduction Scientific Laboratories and Time Neopositivism: Tall Tales of a Quasi-Timeless Science Neopositivism’s Inhabitable Metanarrative: The Hypothetical Laboratory Thematic Standard: Experimental Contro Creative Filtration: Autonomous and Systematic Concordant Discordance: Random and Non-Systematic Unfolding a Regular World Critical Realism: A Quasi-Eternal Theology of Social Science Critical Realism’s Inhabitable Metanarrative: The Science of Emancipation Thematic Standard: Stable Ontology Creative Filtration: Intransitivity Unfolding a Theological World Interpretivism: Humanizing Time? Interpretivism’s Inhabitable Metanarrative: Provisional and Occasionally Emancipatory Thematic Standard: Insider Accounts Creative Filtration: Ideal Typification Concordant Discordance: Counterfactuals The Old Temptation to Tame Time Conclusion Mapping IR as a Timing Project Science Fictions 6: Quantitative Approaches: Mathematical Metaphors for Eternity Introduction Statistics Confronts the Problem of Time A Statistically Inhabitable Universe The Story in the General Linear Model Creative Filtration Concordant Discordance Unfolding an Intelligible Series Taking Time Seriously? Time in, Time Out Temporal Alternatives to the GLM Bayesian Alternatives The Story in Bayesian Models Is Quantitative IR Taking a Temporal Turn? Conclusion 7: Historical Institutionalism: From Pathological to Temporal Institutions Introduction The Rise of Historical Institutionalism Historical Institutionalism’s Problem with Time Historical Institutionalism’s Narrative Solutions to the Problem of Time Synoptic Theme Creative Filtration Experiential Cleavage Concordant Discordance and Orderly Institutional Series Critical Junctures The Long View Overlooked Causes Disciplined Changes Historical or Horological Institutionalism? The Wages of Horological Institutionalism The Rationalist’s Revenge From Horological to Temporal Institutions Conclusion 8: Critical Approaches: Past Times, Fast Times, and the Rapture of Rupture Introduction Past Times 1—Savage Temporalities Past Times 2—Neoclassical Times Fast Times: Accelerationism The Rapture of Rupture Empty or Open Time? Conclusion Conclusion: Re-timing and Reclaiming International Relations Where Did the Time Go? Stranger Than Fiction, Strangest as Fiction New Times for IR? Re-timing IR Embracing Different Timing Standards “Time’s The Revelator” References Index