Building Yesterday's Future for Everyone: Academic Selections from the 2025 World Science Fiction Convention (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789819218301)

Douglas A. Van Belle is a multi-disciplinary scholar with a diverse research portfolio. Publications include: simulations of international politics, rational choice and revolutionary collective action, global media freedom, the social nature of science and SETI, Palaeontology and scientific progress in the Social Sciences, media's influence on foreign aid bureaucracies, international information flows and the necessary conditions for the adoption of disaster risk reduction policies, the role of science fiction in society, and the use of science fiction to teach politics. He is currently examining how science fiction as thought experiment shapes its role in the conceptual space between science and society. The diversity of his expertise is driven by his creative works, including several science fiction novels, as well has his introduction to politics textbook, A Novel Approach to Politics, which is in its 7th edition. His latest novel, A World Adrift, is set in the skies of Venus, 800 years after it was first colonized, and explores the human impact of the politics of extreme resource scarcity. Doug spent 11 Years as the Editor-in-Chief of first Foreign Policy Analysis (Oxford) and then International Studies Perspectives (Oxford), and was previously the series editor for Foreign Policy Analysis (Routledge).