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Existential anxieties and right-wing populism in Europe—why people unconcerned by globalisation vote against it
In recent years several contributions have made the argument that right-wing populist voting is interrelated with individuals being negatively...
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Existential Risks in Peace and Conflict Studies
This book explores the topic of peace and the long-term survival of the human species. Drawing on Existential Risk Studies (ERS), the book lays out a...
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Responding to Existential Risks: Grounds, Targets, and Strategies
The past two decades have witnessed the growing literature on existential risk or X-risk, which refers to the peril that threatens the destruction of...
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Totalitarianism Risk and Peace
This chapter considers how totalitarianism might become an existential threat to humanity in two different ways: by contributing to another risk,...
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Emerging Technologies, Risk, Peace, and Conflict
This chapter begins with a discussion of the term emerging technologies, what criteria define it, and how it may pose concerns for existential risk...
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Democracy in Europe: Enlarged But Eroding—A Union in Existential Crisis
This chapter addresses the challenges to liberal democracy in Europe and how a questioned liberal democracy has become a threat to the European Union...
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Youth with Existential Crises: A Transdisciplinary View for Comprehension and Intervention
The collection closes with a chapter by Lisbet Almaguer Sao, inspired by her experiences in her practice of clinical psychology. In a study on...
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Risk Citizenship in Complex Risk Society
The particular manners and intensities of South Korea’s compressed economic development and social change have engendered a risk society with...
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US Trade Policy: Japan vs. China, from Politically Economic to Existential
Trade with China is politically sensitive in the United States these days. The U.S.’s bilateral trade deficit U.S. with the People’s Republic is...
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New Highs in Risk and Resilience
With the increase in the magnitude of risks and changes in their characteristics, some of the basic approaches in the traditional risk-resilience...
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Democracy or Plutocracy? America’s Existential Question
Americans are proud of their democratic political system. But the facts show that America has increasingly come to resemble a plutocracyPlutocracy,...
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Changing Causal Narratives and Risk Perceptions on Foreign Investment: the Riskification of Chinese Investments in the Nordic Region
This article surveys recent legislative and policy changes on foreign investments in four Nordic countries (Finland, Sweden, Denmark and Norway)....
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Global policymakers and catastrophic risk
There is a rapidly develo** literature on risks that threaten the whole of humanity, or a large part of it. Discussion is increasingly turning to...
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EU Norm Promotion in a Conflictual World. An Existential Necessity with Obstacles?
The treaties of the European Union (EU) commit it to promote the norms and values upon which it is founded in relations with countries outside of its...
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Foundations
This chapter describes the emergence of Peace and Conflict Studies (PCS) and Existential Risk Studies (ERS). This chapter traces both of these fields...
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Great Powers Conflict
This chapter focuses on the possible threats a Great Power Conflict may have as an existential risk. The chapter begins by discussing the dynamics of...
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Japan–Myanmar Relations: A Quarter-Century of Risk Mitigation, Management, and Consolidation
On February 1, 2021, the world watched an aerobics instructor in Myanmar’s capital Naypyidaw, as behind her could be seen tanks rolling up to...
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Risk and Security in the Bush, Obama, and Trump Administrations
This chapter situates Trump’s attempts at risk management via the wall and travel ban within the broader context of US foreign and defence policy in...
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What’s in a Name? Deconstructing Risk and Resilience
Australia, like most developed and develo** economies, faces the challenges of anticipating the nature and scale of climate variability and...
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At the Intersection of PCS and ERS
This chapter examines the intersections between Peace and Conflict Studies (PCS) and Existential Risk Studies (ERS). Through these intersections, the...