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At a time when most articles in International Relations (IR) go ‘micro’ and praise the promises of some new empiricism,1 Alexander Wendt shows with his Quantum Mind and Social Science: Unifying Physical and Social Ontology (hereafter Quantum Mind and Social Science) that Theory with a capital T is not dead at all. 2 This is a book that one not only reads, but one can actually study with much to think about. Wendt guides us through a world that is certainly fascinating, full of paradoxes, and mind-boggling insights.3 It is somewhat of a shame that for far too long, modern physics has not been part of our deliberations. At the same time, I think it is pretty fair to say that Wendt is not interested in fulfilling any pre-established expectations about what the ‘author’ Wendt stood for in IR so far.
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