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Ian Manners is editor of special issue of Cooperation and Conflict on 'Normative Power in the Planetary Organic Crisis'

Ian Manners, photo.

Ian Manners has edited the twentieth anniversary special issue on ‘Normative Power in the Planetary Organic Crisis', published September 2025.

This twentieth anniversary special issue broadens the horizons beyond the 2013 Cooperation and Conflict special issue to develop the normative power approach through a prospective on the use of normative power in addressing the planetary organic crisis. The special issue argues that 21st century planetary politics, characterised by truly planetary relations of causality, can be understood and addressed holistically by using normative power in the planetary organic crisis. The planetary organic crisis is the accelerating and symbiotic crisis of economy, society, ecology, conflict, and polity that has become increasingly self-evident since the 1970s.

The special issue consists of seven articles:

  1. Ian Manners, Introduction to the twentieth anniversary special issue on normative power in the planetary organic crisis - https://doi.org/10.1177/00108367251348113
  2. Ian Manners, Normative power in the planetary organic crisis - https://doi.org/10.1177/00108367241244954
  3. Veit Bachmann and Sami Moisio, An inquiry into the EU’s role in global domination: Thinking normative power through the Frankfurt School - https://doi.org/10.1177/00108367241244966
  4. Petra Debusscher, Intersectional justice and normative power in the planetary organic crisis - https://doi.org/10.1177/00108367251336983
  5. Franz von Lucke, Towards orchestrating normative power in the climate crisis - https://doi.org/10.1177/00108367251338674
  6. Gergana Noutcheva and Kateryna Zarembo, Normative power at its unlikeliest: EU democratic norms and security service reform in Ukraine - https://doi.org/10.1177/00108367241244978
  7. Ana E Juncos and Simon Frankel Pratt, Pragmatist power Europe: Resilience and evolution in planetary organic crisis - https://doi.org/10.1177/00108367241244958

Cooperation and Conflict special issue contents: https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/caca/60/3

Ian Manners Departmental webpage