International Order in Diversity

War, Trade and Rule in the Indian Ocean

AvAndrew Phillips,J. C. Sharman

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

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Beskrivning

International relations scholars typically expect political communities to resemble one another the more they are exposed to pressures of war, economic competition and the spread of hegemonic legitimacy standards. However, historically it is heterogeneity, not homogeneity, that has most often defined international systems. Examining the Indian Ocean region - the centre of early modern globalization - Andrew Phillips and J. C. Sharman explain how diverse international systems can emerge and endure. Divergent preferences for terrestrial versus maritime conquest, congruent traditions of heteronomy and shared strategies of localization were factors which enabled diverse actors including the Portuguese Estado da India, Dutch and English company sovereigns and mighty Asian empires to co-exist for centuries without converging on a common institutional form. Debunking the presumed relationship between interaction and homogenization, this book radically revises conventional thinking on the evolution of international systems, while deepening our understanding of a historically crucial but critically understudied world region.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2015-04-23
Mått:152 x 229 x 16 mm
Vikt:540 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Cambridge Studies in International Relations
Antal sidor:274
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781107084834
Utmärkelser:Robert L. Jervis and Paul W. Schroeder Best Book Award, International History and Politics Section, American Political Science Association 2016

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Internationella relationer inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Andrew Phillips is an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Research Award Fellow and Senior Lecturer in International Relations and Strategy in the School of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Queensland. J. C. Sharman is a Professor in the Centre for Governance and Public Policy at Griffith University.

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'This superb historical sociological exploration of the Indian Ocean system in effect provides a compelling and vitally important double-provincialisation of Westphalia: first, by revealing how heteronomous rather than (Westphalian) homogenous international orders have constituted the norm in world political history; and second, by revealing the critical point that the standard Westphalian logic of homogenization reflects a Eurocentric conception that simply does not stand up when applied to the non-Western world.' John M. Hobson, University of Sheffield

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction; 1. The puzzle of durable diversity in international relations; 2. The initial growth of diversity, 1500–1600; 3. The expansion of diversity and competition under heteronomy, 1600–50; 4. The stabilization of diversity, 1600–1750; 5. Reconfiguring diversity in the age of empire, 1750–1900; Conclusion: order in diversity.