VI Reflecting on Uncertainty? Epistemics and Critique
The emergent discourse on global threats and risks: An analysis of the contemporary empirical evidence extant in scientific journals
Rogelio Madrueño
Abstract
The prominence of global megatrends and the emergent literature on threats, risks and vulnerabilities show that these two phenomena are arguably not mutually exclusive. This betrays, however, a lack of understanding about how these challenges are conceived by the scientific community from a more comprehensive perspective. This paper assumes that it is possible to identify the presence of turning points in world politics, focused on the analysis of threats and risks and the detection of citation bursts, which reflect new ...
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