Geopolitics
The Anthropocene Debate: A Shield for Western Modernity or a Path to Planetary Liberation?
The Anthropocene epoch challenges International Relations to move beyond human and state-centric frameworks by integrating planetary and ecological perspectives, yet it represents an evolution of existing critical traditions within the discipline rather than a revolutionary rupture. This is a crucial but often overstated intellectual shift that fails to fully dismantle the entrenched, Western modernist paradigms which continue to prioritize state sovereignty and anthropocentric power structures over genuine planetary and pluriversal solidarity.
