Political Theory Today: Political Innovation and The Management of Structural Change

We are living at a time of great unrest, conflict and doubt about our political frames of reference - of confusion regarding the present and disorientation regarding the future. The rapid changes in disciplinary boundaries that we have witnessed in recent years are giving rise to new scenarios and perspectives . Inquiring into how we should approach these new contexts thus seems imperative as far as the innovative potential of the discipline itself is concerned. Increasingly, there is a widely held view that theoretical reflection and the political decisions that are made here and now are of vital importance, since the design of the political society of the future is at stake.