ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book presents the temporalizing difference, one's contemporaries are relegated to a past where security dynamics are presumed to work differently. If theorizing time and temporality is a specter for international relations (IR) scholars evading the emergence of authoritarian capitalist states, radical religious formations, non-Western persistent practices, gender, reproduction, and colonization. The book grapples with time and temporality as a way to think and imagine a present whose inscription of violence is not masked or spatialized through debt deferred promises. It explores the questions and explains how and why time and temporality must be an integral part of theorizing IR and world politics more broadly. Becoming open to the force of time while remaining attuned to discursive and material constraints of the present demands problematizing a kind of historicism that recapitulates politics in the terrestrial matrix.
