Machine generated contents note: Introduction
The Architecture of an Argument
1. Complexity and the Modern Episteme: Epistemological Outline of a New Science
Introduction: French Philosophy and the Modern Episteme
The Thought of Henri Bergson
Bergson and Complexity Science: Ilya Prigogine
A (Short) Genesis of Complexity
Complexity, Post-Structuralism, and the Modern Episteme
2. An Archaeology of Modernity
Discourse Formation in the Modern Empirical Sciences
Science and Fragmentation: The End of Empiricism
The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Science
3. Complexity, International Relations and Ethics from an Epistemic Perspective
Introduction: Science as the new Metaphysics in Transcendental Philosophies of the Object
An Archaeology of International Relations (IR) Theory: From Raymond Aron to Kenneth Waltz
Neorealist IR as a Modern Empirical Science
IR's Understanding of the Kosovo Crisis and the Role of Critical Geopolitics
Complexity, Ethics and the Analytic of Finitude Metaphysical Law and Ethical Categorisations
Intermezzo A Roadmap to an Argument
4. International Relations and Modern Interpretations of the Kosovo Crisis
Ethno-Diplomacy and International Relations
Fighting Ugly: Doing Good by Doing Evil
The Evolution of Humanitarian Intervention
Conclusion: Epistemic Considerations on the Key Debates
5. Legal-Ethical Frameworks on Kosovo, Modern Analytical Finitude at Work
NATO and the International Court of Justice
NATO and the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
Another Failed Jurisdiction: The European Court of Human Rights
Conclusion: Universal Exclusion and the Complexity Ethic
6. Ancient Ethnic Hatreds
Introduction: Complexity and Six Hundred Years of Non-Linear History
Living in the Past, in the Present: Apprehensions of Time in Nationalist Discourse
The Banality of Ethnic Conflict and Immanent Power Struggles
Clashes of Modernities: Apprehensions of Time in Reaction to Nationalist Discourse
Conclusion: Historical Linearity at Work
7. Conclusion: International Relations, Complexity and the Kosovo Crisis.