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Why are policymakers, scholars, and the general public so surprised when the world turns out to be unpredictable? World Politics at the Edge of Chaos suggests that the study of international politics needs new forms of knowledge to respond to emerging challenges such as the interconnectedness between local and transnational realities; between markets, migration, and social movements; and between pandemics, a looming energy crisis, and climate change. Asserting that Complexity Thinking (CT) provides a much-needed lens for interpreting these challenges, the contributors offer a parallel assessment of the impact of CT to anthropocentric and non-anthropocentric (post-human) International Relations. Using this perspective, the result should be less surprise when confronting the dynamism of a fragile and unpredictable global life. ; Open Access version supported by Knowledge Unlatched. Support for book also provided by the Rachel Carson Center. ; VoR ; SUNY Press ; N/A

The "World Politics of Social Investment" (WoPSI) project aims at explaining variance in social investment agendas and social in-vestment reforms across democratic countries in different regions of the World. Virtually all capitalist economies grapple with challenges of demographic change, slow economic growth, poor employment performance and increasing poverty rates. In dealing with these pro-blems, a social investment strategy appeals to a wide audience, both political and academic. However, social investment reforms and per-formances in democratic countries around the globe are highly une-qual and remain fragmentary: different countries have implemented different types of policy instruments, with different functions, at diffe-rent points in time, and to different degrees. Despite a growing number of scientific contributions on social in-vestment reforms and their effects, a systematic mapping of the de-sign of social investment agendas and policies in different democra-tic countries around the globe is still lacking. Moreover, we lack an explanation for the variance in the development of social investment policy reforms. This is where we locate the research interest of the project presented in this paper. In order to understand why social investment agendas and policies have developed differently across countries, we need to study the politics of social investment reforms. Thus, we ask: How do social investment agendas and social in-vestment policy reforms vary across democratic countries around the globe? Under what political conditions do social investment agendas and/or reforms develop ? In this paper, we situate these questions in the existing state of the literature, and we outline a way to answer these research questions in the context of social policy reforms in Latin America, East Asia, as well as Western and Eastern Europe. We argue that political coali-tions (actors and their interests), as well as the institutional embed-dedness of social investment politics are key factors in explaining the high ...

International audience ; The "World Politics of Social Investment" (WoPSI) project aims at explaining variance in social investment agendas and social in-vestment reforms across democratic countries in different regions of the World. Virtually all capitalist economies grapple with challenges of demographic change, slow economic growth, poor employment performance and increasing poverty rates. In dealing with these pro-blems, a social investment strategy appeals to a wide audience, both political and academic. However, social investment reforms and per-formances in democratic countries around the globe are highly une-qual and remain fragmentary: different countries have implemented different types of policy instruments, with different functions, at diffe-rent points in time, and to different degrees. Despite a growing number of scientific contributions on social in-vestment reforms and their effects, a systematic mapping of the de-sign of social investment agendas and policies in different democra-tic countries around the globe is still lacking. Moreover, we lack an explanation for the variance in the development of social investment policy reforms. This is where we locate the research interest of the project presented in this paper. In order to understand why social investment agendas and policies have developed differently across countries, we need to study the politics of social investment reforms. Thus, we ask: How do social investment agendas and social in-vestment policy reforms vary across democratic countries around the globe? Under what political conditions do social investment agendas and/or reforms develop ? In this paper, we situate these questions in the existing state of the literature, and we outline a way to answer these research questions in the context of social policy reforms in Latin America, East Asia, as well as Western and Eastern Europe. We argue that political coali-tions (actors and their interests), as well as the institutional embed-dedness of social investment politics are key factors ...

1. Introduction -- 2. Humanitarian Supply Chains in COVID-19 Era -- 3. Crossing Borders in the COVID-19 Lockdown Process: Vaccine Diplomacy -- 4. Fiscal Space and Climate Change in the Post-COVID-19 Pandemic: Double Crises of SIDS -- 5. the International Trade Agenda of the Pandemic: Systematic Evaluation of the Global Trade Crisis in the Post-COVID-19 Era -- 6. Anti- Immigration Rhetoric of Far-Right Movements in the COVID-19 Era -- 7. Borders in the Post-Pandemic World Order -- 8. The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Tackling COVID-19 -- 9. COVID-19 Pandemic in Africa: Global Uncertainty and Security Quests -- 10. Post-Pandemic Economies Development Perspective in Countries of the South Caucasus: Comparative Analysis -- 11. COVID-19 and the Political Economy of Depending Socio-Economic Inequalities -- 12. Optimistic Outlook on the Impact of COVID-19 -- On Higher Education -- 13. Digital Diplomacy: As A Strategy of Global Crisis Management During the Time of COVID-19 -- 14. Xenophobia, Racism, and Populism in the COVID-19 Era -- 15. Concerns About Civod-19 in the Eyes of Respondents: Example from Poland -- 16. Branding in the Pandemic: the "Cool Japan" Strategy -- 17. Impact of COVID-19 On Greenhouse Gas Emission in OECD Countries: K-Mean Method -- 18. Re-Thinking International Migration in Terms of Vulnerability: A Critical Overview of the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Why are policymakers, scholars, and the general public so surprised when the world turns out to be unpredictable? World Politics at the Edge of Chaos suggests that the study of international politics needs new forms of knowledge to respond to emerging challenges such as the interconnectedness between local and transnational realities; between markets, migration, and social movements; and between pandemics, a looming energy crisis, and climate change. Asserting that Complexity Thinking (CT) provides a much-needed lens for interpreting these challenges, the contributors offer a parallel assessment of the impact of CT to anthropocentric and non-anthropocentric (post-human) International Relations. Using this perspective, the result should be less surprise when confronting the dynamism of a fragile and unpredictable global life.

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