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Author: Evan Luard Publisher: New York : Free Press ISBN: Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 412
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"For many years scholars engaged in the field of international relations have been exploring, amid much mutual recrimination, new ways to approaching the study of that somewhat amorphous and intractable discipline. This book is a modest contribution to that unfinished, and perhaps unfinishable, search. It proposes a new model or framework for the study of international relationships, as an alternative to those based on systems, games, bargaining, decision-making procedures, communications analysis, and the other multifarious methods of approach which have been suggested in recent years"--Foreword, p. vii.
Author: Evan Luard Publisher: New York : Free Press ISBN: Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 412
Book Description
"For many years scholars engaged in the field of international relations have been exploring, amid much mutual recrimination, new ways to approaching the study of that somewhat amorphous and intractable discipline. This book is a modest contribution to that unfinished, and perhaps unfinishable, search. It proposes a new model or framework for the study of international relationships, as an alternative to those based on systems, games, bargaining, decision-making procedures, communications analysis, and the other multifarious methods of approach which have been suggested in recent years"--Foreword, p. vii.
Author: Barry Buzan Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9780521541213 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 322
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Barry Buzan offers an extensive and long overdue critique and reappraisal of the English school approach to International Relations. Starting on the neglected concept of world society and bringing together the international society tradition and the Wendtian mode of constructivism, Buzan offers a new theoretical framework that can be used to address globalisation as a complex political interplay among state and non-state actors. This approach forces English school theory to confront neglected questions about both its basic concepts and assumptions, and about the constitution of society in terms of what values are shared, how and why they are shared, and by whom. Buzan highlights the idea of primary institutions as the central contribution of English school theory and shows how this both differentiates English school theory from realism and neoliberal institutionalism, and how it can be used to generate distinctive comparative and historical accounts of international society.
Author: Geoffrey Stern Publisher: Burns & Oates ISBN: Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 392
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This second edition of this textbook places in context key world events since 1945. While not neglecting the significant developments of the last 50 years, this book has a broad historical and conceptual range. It provides students with a historical analysis of the origins, development and early networks of IR, and an exposition of the diverse ways in which modern international society has been defined and interpreted. Tackling a range on international concerns, Geoffrey Stern explores and clarifies such concepts as sovereignty, the balance of power, national interest and interdependence, illustrating his text with reference to both historical and contemporary world events.
Author: B. A. Roberson Publisher: Continuum ISBN: Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 296
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The English School, embodying the traditions of philosophy, law and history and some of the conceptualizations of the social sciences, provides a perspective on contemporary international relations theory that allows for a critical reformulation of the concept of international society. It is a formulation that offers an alternative methodology for the study and deeper understanding of the nature of the current emerging transformations in the international system.
Author: Scott Pegg Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1000708578 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 272
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Originally published in 1998, International Society and the De Facto Society explores the phenomenon of de facto statehood in contemporary international relations. The de facto state is almost the inverse of what Robert Jackson has termed the ‘quasi-state’. The quasi-state has an ambassador, a flag, and a seat at the United Nations, but it does not function positively as a viable governing entity. Its limitations though, do not detract from sovereign legitimacy. The de facto state, on the other hand, lacks legitimacy yet effectively controls a given territorial area and provides governmental services to a specific population. The book engages in a birth, life, and death or evolution examination of the de facto state.
Author: Alex J. Bellamy Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0199265194 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 348
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In recent years, the English School or international society approach to International Relations has risen to prominence because its theories and concepts seem able to help us explain some of the most complex and seemingly paradoxical features of contemporary world politics. In doing so, the approach has attracted a variety of criticisms from both ends of the political spectrum. Some argue that the claim that states form an international society is premature in an era of terrorwhere power politics and the use of force have returned to the fore. Others insist that international society's state-centrism make it an inherently conservative approach unable to address many of the world's most pressing problems.International Society and its Critics provides the first in-depth study of the English School approach to International Relations from a variety of different theoretical and practical perspectives. Sixteen leading scholars from three continents critically evaluate the School's contribution to the study of international theory and history; consider its relationship with a variety of alternative perspectives including international political economy, feminism, environmentalism, andcritical security studies; and assess how the approach can help us to make sense of the big issues of the day such as terrorism, the management of cultural difference, global governance, the ethics of coercion, and the role of international law. They find that whilst the concept of international society helps toshed light on many of the important tensions in world politics, much work still needs to be done. In particular, the approach needs to broaden its empirical scope to incorporate more of the issues and actors that shape global politics; draw upon other theoretical traditions to improve its explanations of change in world politics; and recognize the complex and multi-layered nature of the contemporary world.
Author: Barry Buzan Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 110842788X Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 289
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A new and systematic view of how global international society (GIS) came into being and acquired its current structure and dynamics. Buzan and Schouenborg integrate states, intergovernmental and international non-governmental organisations, and the diffusion of norms, into a single theoretical framework for the study of GIS.
Author: Lacy Pejcinovic Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1135629072 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 276
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Is war an institution of international society and how is it constituted as such across the evolution of international society? This book is an inquiry into the purpose of war as a social institution, as originally put forward by Hedley Bull. It offers a comprehensive examination of what is entailed in thinking of war as a social institution and as a mechanism for order. Since the terrorist attacks of 9/11 the subject of war has become increasingly relevant, with questions about who can wage war against whom, the way war is fought, and the reasons that lead us to war exposing fundamental inadequacies in our theorisation of war. War has long been considered in the discipline of International Relations in the context of the problem of order. However, the inclusion of war as an ‘institution’ is problematic for many. How can we understand an idea and practice so often associated with coercion, destruction, and disorder as contributing to order and coexistence? This study contends that an understanding of the core elements that establish the character of war as an institution of modern international society will give us important insights into the purpose, if any, of war in contemporary international relations. This ground-breaking book will be of strong interest to students and scholars of international relations, international relations theory, the English school, security studies and warfare.
Author: Tim Dunne Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0192511939 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 544
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The Globalization of International Society re-examines the development of today's society of sovereign states, drawing on a wealth of new scholarship to challenge the landmark account presented in Bull and Watson's classic work, The Expansion of International Society (OUP, 1984). For Bull and Watson, international society originated in Europe, and expanded as successive waves of new states were integrated into a rule-governed order. International society, on their view, was thus a European cultural artefact - a claim that is at odds with recent scholarship in history, politics, and related fields of research. Bringing together leading scholars from Asia, Australia, Europe, and the United States, this book provides an alternative account: it draws out the diversity of polities that existed at around c1500; it shows how interacting identities, political orders, and economic forces were intensifying within and across regions; it details the tangled dynamics that helped to globalize the European conception of a pluralist international society, through patterns of warfare and between East and West. The Globalization of International Society examines the institutional contours of contemporary international society, with its unique blend of universal sovereignty and global law, and its forms of hierarchy that coexist with commitments to international human rights. The book explores the multiple forms of contestation that challenge international society today: contests over the limits of sovereignty in relation to cosmopolitan conceptions of responsibility, disputes over global governance, concerns about persistent economic, racial, and gender-based patterns of disadvantage, and lastly the threat to the established order opened up by the disruptive power of digital communications.
Author: Evan Luard Publisher: ISBN: 9780300040166 Category : International relations. Languages : en Pages : 468
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Evan Luard addresses a number of fundamental questions relating to the role and characteristics of war, discerning patterns that have operated with remarkable consistency throughout modern history. What have been the issues that have led to wars between states? How have these varied in different periods of history and among different types of states? What were the underlying motives that propelled states into war? How have different states at different times arrived at their decisions to make war? How have they assessed the profitability of wars, the likely success and consequences of armed action? What are the procedures that have been used in modern times for resolving conflicts and ending wars? How have the beliefs about war changed from one era to the next? In the process of exploring these questions, Luard offers a wealth of fascinating examples from different historical periods. He concludes by examining the international political culture of today's world--including the nuclear option--in order to reflect on the prospectsfor evolving toward a more war-free internaional society.
Author: Evan Luard
Author: Evan Luard
Author: Barry Buzan
Author: Geoffrey Stern
Author: B. A. Roberson
Author: Scott Pegg
Author: Alex J. Bellamy
Author: Barry Buzan
Author: Lacy Pejcinovic
Author: Tim Dunne
Author: Evan Luard