ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book examines the critical and theoretical status and diversity of modern theory and criticism bearing upon contemporary world-political change and transformation. It also examines the historical formation of concepts and methodologies in the discourses of world politics with the proliferation and intensification of tears and wears specifically in mind. The book explains methodological concerns and critiques in world politics. It defines current problems of political thought and world politics in relation to the promises and limits of past and present methodological protocols in political theory and international relations theory. The book presents several significant theoretical paradigms and problematics in the context of recent discussions about the uses and abuses of theory for inquiry in world politics. It describes discourses associated in a variety of respects with political securitization, identity and its representation, and the political economy of subjectivity in the field of IR.
