Platforms of Post-Truth: Outlines of a Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere
Regulation must guarantee the factual basis of debate and the broader horizon of shared experiences – without which facts and democracy lose their meaning.
New Book – Global Politics in a Post-Truth Age
This book brings together ten chapters that reflect upon the state of global, regional and national politics in the twenty-first century within the context of post-truth.
Truth and Politics in the Age of Post-Truth
A world of post-truth politics can be an opportunity for a new kind of politics if it is indeed about dismantling the idea that truth is the ideal that politics should strive for.
Defining Post-truth: Structures, Agents, and Styles
Factual truth has a limited but indispensable role to play in pluralistic politics, comparable to material environment that both enables and limits democratic debate.
Russia, the West and the Growing Gap between Narratives
In such a confrontational situation, both parties need to better understand each other’s narratives. To be more effective, the Russia-West diplomacy may use narrative analysis and negotiations.
10th Anniversary Interview – Stephen Hopgood
To celebrate E-IR’s 10th anniversary we asked some of our existing interviewees two further questions reflecting on the last decade in International Relations.
Intuitive Action and Popular Culture in Trump’s Alternative Facts Age
As the exceptional American follows its path intuitively without any need to draw on agreed upon facts, guns can be drawn upon alternative facts driven by intuitive knowledge.
Post-Truth, Complicity and International Politics
Apparently, we live in ‘post-truth’ times. But is this anything new? Is it more than a passing meme? And what might it mean for students and scholars of International Relations?
Performance and Politics Fifty Years After ‘Society of the Spectacle’
Resistant political performance must be reconsidered given populist post-truth politics. The relevance of shared truths and authenticity of others is now questioned.
The Far Right in the US and the Religious Right in Iran
In the age of Trump and a rising tide of intolerance globally, a universalist outlook that critiques all forms of repression is an important theoretical perspective to adopt.
