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This handbook offers a unique approach to the question: How do scholars write the future of global politics? Written in futur anterieur style, around the 200-year anniversary of the birth of International Relations (IR) as an academic discipline, the contributions engage in world-building and imagine different futures of IR. Set in a multiverse, 23 chapters draw on a range of possible themes and imaginaries, for instance post-pandemic conditions, the Anthropocene, and not least academic practices and the role of researchers. A concluding chapter anchors these explorations in contemporary discussions. The book mirrors the format and style of existing handbooks, combining outlines and discussions of theories, structures, processes, and core issues in IR with an academic science fiction account of how these might play out over the course of the next century. In doing so, the book challenges IR and provides alternative imaginaries, rather than predicting future conditions for all humanity. The book invites readers to reflect on how thinking about the future has become an increasingly radical, but more than ever necessary act. Laura Horn is Associate Professor at the Department of Social Science and Business at Roskilde University, Denmark. Aysem Mert is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Political Science at Stockholm University, Sweden. Franziska Muller is Assistant Professor at the Department of Social Sciences and Business at University of Hamburg, Germany.

In a multipolar world with growing demand for energy, not least by Emerging Powers such as Brazil, India, China or South Africa (BICS), questions of EU external energy governance would at first hand appear to be a high-priority. Yet, reality tells a different story: the EU's geographical focus remains on adjacent countries in the European neighbourhood and on issues related to energy security. Despite being Strategic Partners and engaging in energy dialogues, it seems that the EU is lacking strategic vision and is not perceived as a major actor in energy cooperation with the BICS. Thus, political momentum for energy cooperation and joint governance of scarce resources is vanishing. Resulting from three years of international, interdisciplinary research cooperation among academics and practitioners in Europe and the BICS countries within a project funded by the Volkswagen Foundation, this volume addresses one of the greatest global challenges. Specific focus lies on the bilateral energy dialogues and Strategic Partnerships between the EU and Emerging Powers regarding bilateral, inter- and transnational energy cooperation. Furthermore, the analysis provides policy recommendations in order to tap the full potential of energy cooperation between the EU and Brazil, India, China and South Africa.--

In den letzten drei Jahrzehnten haben weitreichende globale Transformationsprozesse den Gegenstandsbereich der Entwicklungsforschung grundlegend verändert und Entwicklungspolitik und -theorie vor neue Herausforderungen gestellt. Das PVS-Sonderheft 2013 nimmt eine Aufarbeitung der neueren Diskussionen und des aktuellen Forschungsstandes vor. In einem ersten Teil wird zunächst auf die zentralen Veränderungen des Gegenstandsbereichs angesichts der tief greifenden weltgesellschaftlichen Transformationsprozesse eingegangen. Im zweiten Abschnitt wird dargestellt, wie diese neuen Herausforderungen in der entwicklungspolitischen Debatte aufgegriffen und theoretisch verarbeitet wurden. Daran anschließend umreißt der Band wichtige Referenzpunkte der aktuellen entwicklungspolitischen Debatte. Im dritten, zentralen Abschnitt wird dargestellt, wie sich das Selbstverständnis der Entwicklungsforschung durch neuere theoretische Ansätze verändert hat bzw. sogar in Frage gestellt wurde. Mit Beiträgen von: Guido Ashoff, Marcel Baumann, Ulrich Brand, Tobias ten Brink, Hans-Jürgen Burchardt, Claudia Derichs, Kristina Dietz, Dana de la Fontaine, Gerhard Hauck, Stephan Klingebiel, Reinhart Kößler, Rahel Kunz, Sabine Kurtenbach, Philipp Lepenies, Elisio Macamo, Christian May, Chris Methmann, Franziska Müller, Andreas Nölke, Angela Oels, Helen Schwenken, Elena Sondermann, Elisabeth Tuider, Cornelia Ulbert, Ingrid Wehr, Aram Ziai, Gabriele Zdunnek und Thomas Zitelmann.