Abstract
Political arguments are time-sensitive. Which one carries the day in a legislative battle, election contest or strategic discussion depends on its quality, its force, its acceptability and its timeliness. David Kennedy's excellent new volume, A world of struggle, has the benefit of quality, force, acceptability and timeliness. Coming at a moment of widespread disenchantment with expert rule among global publics, this book captures something of the contemporary Zeitgeist. The aim of Kennedy's book is to outline an approach to the study of expertise in global politics that comes to grips with the deeply political nature of expert knowledge. While studies of expertise are not novel in International Relations (IR), Kennedy's work adds to and advances the literature by questioning the category of expertise itself, via an interdisciplinary engagement with critical legal studies, IR, social theory, science and technology studies and the sociology of scientific knowledge. In the process, he draws our attention to the contested politics of knowledge production in the global political economy.
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