Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

Uses of 'the West'

Security and the Politics of Order

Av Gunther Hellmann, Benjamin Herborth

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Beskrivning

The notion of 'the West' is commonly used in politics, the media, and in the academic world. To date, our idea of 'the West' has been largely assumed and effective, but has not been examined in detail from a theoretical perspective. Uses of 'the West' combines a range of original and topical approaches to evaluate what 'the West' really does, and how the idea is being used in everyday political practice. This book examines a range of uses of 'the West', and traces how 'the West' works in a broad array of conceptual and empirical contexts, ranging from the return of geopolitics - via a critical review of the debates surrounding Samuel Huntington's Clash of Civilization thesis - to the question of the future of 'the West'. Analysis extends further to the repercussions of the war on terror on Western democracy and the processes of delineating the Western from the non-Western, as well as observations of the institutional transformations of Western order.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum: 2016-12-22
Mått: 152 x 229 x 19 mm
Vikt: 590 g
Format: Inbunden
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 320
Förlag: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781107168497

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Gunther Hellmann is Professor of Political Science at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt Am Main and Principal Investigator at the Cluster of Excellence on 'The Formation of Normative Orders'. His recent work has appeared in Foreign Policy Analysis, the Journal of International Relations and Development and the International Studies Review. Benjamin Herborth is Assistant Professor at the Department of International Relations and International Organization at Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands. His recent work has appeared in the Journal of International Relations and Development, International Theory and the Review of International Studies.

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'The grand simplifier of 'the West' perniciously pervades scholarship as often as the daily news. The editors of this book have performed a great service to all of us in theorizing this concept, examining its use and inquiring into its transformative potential. The complexity that the concept of the West blankets reminds the reader of Jacob Burckhardt's dictum: 'beware of the terrible simplifiers.' Peter J. Katzenstein, Walter S. Carpenter, Jr Professor of International Studies, Cornell University

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