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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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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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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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Whose anxiety? What practices? The Paris School and ontological security studies
The field of international security studies drastically evolved over the last few decades. Critical security studies emerged as one trend, seeking to...
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War and Peace in European Studies: a Zeitenwende?
This chapter examines the potential impact of the war in Ukraine on EU Studies. While the war is the most destructive war within Europe since the end...
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Rethinking Development and Decolonising Development Studies
The COVID-19 pandemic, which led to almost seven million deaths (WHO in Statistics on COVID-19, 2022), revealed the world to be even more complex and...
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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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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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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...
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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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From Dullesism to Financialisation (The Ethos of Area Studies II)
This chapter traces two distinct moments in the construction and evolution of postwar Pax Americana, succinctly divided into one period called...
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Case Studies
The Chancellorship of Helmut Kohl saw the beginning of Germany’s adaption from the Cold War to a peaceful but uncertain future. Major German security...
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From Anti-Centrism Studies to Translation
This chapter begins with a critical reflection on contemporary efforts to promote decolonisation via a strategy of horizontal solidarity and...
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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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Conceptualising Social Media and Critical Security Studies in the Digital Age
This chapter sets out with an ambitious goal—to situate a discussion of social media and critical security studies in its broader conceptual and...
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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...