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The website is run by a registered non-profit organisation based in Bristol, England and staffed with an all-volunteer team of students and scholars. iv Abstract International Relations scholars have traditionally expressed little direct interest in addressing time and temporality. Yet, assumptions about temporality are at the core of many theories of world politics and time is a crucial component of the human condition and our social reality. Today, a small but emerging strand of literature has emerged to meet questions concerning time and temporality and its relationship to International Relations head on. This volume provides a platform to continue this work. The chapters in this book address subjects such as identity, terrorism, war, gender relations, global ethics and governance in order to demonstrate how focusing on the temporal aspects of such phenomena can enhance our understanding of the world. v About the Editors Andrew Hom is a postdoctoral fellow in Politics at the University of Glasgow’s School of Social and Political Sciences, researching the temporality of victory in war. His research interests include timing and time, security, international theory, the vocation of IR, and philosophies of social science. Previously, he taught at the University of St Andrews and Vanderbilt University, after earning a PhD from Aberystwyth University and sundry degrees from the University of Kansas. Examples of his work can be found in Security Dialogue, Review of International Studies, International Studies Review and Military Review. Alasdair McKay is an editor-at-large at E-International Relations. He holds undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in politics from the universities of Manchester and Aberystwyth. He has worked for an African human rights NGO and in the parliamentary office of an MP. Christopher McIntosh is a currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Studies at Bard College. He has broad research interests in international relations theory and security studies, including: time/temporality in IR theory and practice; the relationship between the concepts of war and sovereignty and the implications this has for the contemporary practice of political violence; U.S. strategy in the war on terror; and the likelihood of nuclear terrorism. His work has been published in International Theory, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism and Orbis. He is currently working on a book project on how the concept of time informs IR scholarship. Liam Stockdale is a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute on Globalisation and the Human Condition and the Institute for Innovation and Excellence in Teaching and Learning at McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada. His research interests sit at the intersection of international relations theory, critical security studies and contemporary social and political thought – with a particular emphasis on the temporalities of societal governance. He is the author of the book Taming an Uncertain Future: Temporality, Sovereignty, and the Politics of Anticipatory Governance (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016), and has previously published on the relationship between time and globalisation, and the global politics of sport. vi Time, Temporality and Global Politics Contents INTRODUCTION Alasdair McKay 1 1. TIMING, IDENTITY, AND EMOTION IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Andrew R. Hom & Ty Solomon 20 2. TIME CREATORS AND TIME CREATURES IN THE ETHICS OF WORLD POLITICS Kimberly Hutchings 38 3. THE EPISTEMOLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES OF TAKING TIME SERIOUSLY AND THE VALUE OF GENERATIONAL ANALYSIS IN IR Tim Luecke 47 4. GOVERNING THE TIME OF THE WORLD Tim Stevens 59 5. CALENDAR TIME, CULTURAL SENSIBILITIES, AND STRATEGIES OF PERSUASION Kevin K. Birth 73 6. ANALOGUE TIME, ANALOGUE PEOPLE AND THE DIGITAL ECLIPSING OF MODERN POLITICAL TIME Robert Hassan 87 7. TIME, POWER AND INEQUALITIES Valerie Bryson 102 8. WAR THROUGH A TEMPORAL LENS: FOREGROUNDING TEMPORALITY IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS’ CONCEPTIONS OF WAR Christopher McIntosh 115 9. ISLAM AND THE POLITICS OF TEMPORALITY: THE CASE OF ISIS Shahzad Bashir 134 10. DISRUPTING THE ‘CONDITIONAL SELFHOOD’ OF THREAT CONSTRUCTION Kathryn Marie Fisher 150 Contents vii 11. CATASTROPHIC FUTURES, PRECARIOUS PRESENTS, AND THE TEMPORAL POLITICS OF (IN)SECURITY Liam P.D. Stockdale 176 CONCLUSION Caroline Holmqvist & Tom Lundborg 193 CONTRIBUTORS 207 NOTE ON INDEXING 210 1 Time, Temporality and Global Politics Introduction ALASDAIR MCKAY E-INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, UK Adolf Hitler once said that ‘time in this war, as in all historical process, is not a factor valuable in itself but must be weighed up’ (quoted in Maiolo 2013: 229). He further opined that time ‘will work against us if we do not use it properly’ (quoted in Gellately 2007: 375). As early as 1937, Hitler believed that success hinged upon acting at the right time (see Faber 2009). For Hitler, quick decisive victories were often seen as preferable to long campaigns because he understood that the longer the war went on the harder it would be for the Germans to maintain military advantages (Fischer 2011: 144-45). Blitzkrieg (lightning war) was deployed to ensure the speedy victories he desired. The defeat of France was made possible by Germany’s quick intensity of warfare and the failure of the French military to understand ‘the quickened rhythm of the times’ that was behind German military strategic thinking during that campaign (Bloch 1968: 45). America’s increasing support for the UK meant that if Hitler was to realise his plan of creating an Eastern Lebensraum, he needed to do it quickly (Fritz 2011: 39). By 1945, when defeat was looming, Hitler lamented that ‘the tragedy for us Germans is that we never have enough time’ (quoted in Fischer 2011: 145). This example drawn from the Second World War gives a flavour of how time is relevant to major international events. Yet, out of all the books and journals that have been published under the rubric of International Relations (IR) very few have paused to ponder the role of time or temporality.