https://at-ceu.studyguide.timeedit.net/modules/INTR5777?type=COREIn the 21st century, humans exert massive influence on the earth, shaping a system of enormous complexity, dispersed agency, and the unknown rules of change and balance. Pandemics, famines, migration, and wars all result from these interactions among humans, their institutions, and nature. The concept of Anthropocene, also known as the Gaia Theory, summarizes contemporary anxieties about climate crisis; global pollution; droughts and famines in the global South; heat waves and melting of permafrost in the global North; oil curse and climate denialism; and other global, regional and (sometimes) national issues. One of the novelties of this course is claiming that Covid-19, and other pandemics, have also been parts of the Anthropocene. We will survey our capacity to create solutions to the problems we face, from geoengineering to vaccinations to reducing consumption to "doughnut urbanism". Moreover, we will discuss new ideas about the relations between decarbonization and digitalization in hope that the new digital means of the public sphere, education, entertainment and remote work, could give us new solutions for the issues of the Anthropocene. The new public sphere as a self-regulating mechanism of Gaia is another novelty of the course.The Anthropocene is a broad, modern, and relevant context for International Relations. Responding to the crisis, all our decisions are political, and modern politics should be explored within the combined system of Gaia. This gives a new contextualization to the classical theories of IR. The course argues that a new paradigm of Climatism should complement the old debates between Realism and Idealism in IR. Along with these theoretical issues, we will focus on the European and global plans of decarbonization, and explore their impacts on IR. How to estimate these projects from the IR perspective? Could we add value to the debate, providing expertise, forecast, or advice that other disciplines cannot give?Academic, political, and popular debates on the Anthropocene have exploded in recent years. This gives us rich material for readings, presentations, and discussions in class.