Author profile: Christopher McIntosh

Christopher McIntosh is an Assistant Professor of Politics at Bard College. His research explores the intersections of time, temporality, quantum social theory, war and political violence. His published work appears in International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Global Security Studies, International Theory, Security Dialogue, International Studies Review, Time and Society, and Millennium, among others. Currently, he is completing a book manuscript on the importance of the present as a frame for thinking international relations called: The Time of Global Politics.

Why the Temporal Turn in IR Should Care About Quantum Theory, and Vice Versa

Christopher McIntosh • Apr 19 2022 • Articles

What quantum social theory adds is the idea that measurement is creative, but also that relationalities are entangled in ways that our conventional understandings of reality don’t understand, or deny.

War through a Temporal Lens

Christopher McIntosh • Aug 4 2016 • Articles

The unforeseeable future implicates the present but also the manner in which decisions in the present operate at the intersection of meaning in past and future.

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