The World Imagined

Collective Beliefs and Political Order in the Sinocentric, Islamic and Southeast Asian International Societies

AvHendrik Spruyt

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

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Taking an inter-disciplinary approach, Spruyt explains the political organization of three non-European international societies from early modernity to the late nineteenth century. The Ottoman, Safavid and Mughal empires; the Sinocentric tributary system; and the Southeast Asian galactic empires, all which differed in key respects from the modern Westphalian state system. In each of these societies, collective beliefs were critical in structuring domestic orders and relations with other polities. These multi-ethnic empires allowed for greater accommodation and heterogeneity in comparison to the homogeneity that is demanded by the modern nation-state. Furthermore, Spruyt examines the encounter between these non-European systems and the West. Contrary to unidirectional descriptions of the encounter, these non-Westphalian polities creatively adapted to Western principles of organization and international conduct. By illuminating the encounter of the West and these Eurasian polities, this book serves to question the popular wisdom of modernity, wherein the Western nation-state is perceived as the desired norm, to be replicated in other polities.

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Utgivningsdatum:2020-07-02
Mått:161 x 231 x 25 mm
Vikt:681 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:LSE International Studies
Antal sidor:410
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781108491211

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Hendrik Spruyt is Norman Dwight Harris Professor of International Relations at Northwestern University, Illinois. Among his publications are: The Sovereign State and Its Competitors (1994), winner of the J. David Greenstone Award; Ending Empire: Contested Sovereignty and Territorial Partition (2005); and, with Alexander Cooley, Contracting States: Sovereign Transfers in International Relations (2009).

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'The World Imagined is a path-breaking book of immense stature. It opens with a highly sophisticated tour d'horizon of the fields of anthropology, history, IR and sociology. Through this inter-discipliary dialogue, Spruyt builds a persuasive case for why we need a deeply interpretive approach to understanding historic international societies. He then provides the pay-off with three detailed studies of non-western international societies (East Asian tributary system; Southeast Asian kingdoms; Islamic empires): in each case, shared beliefs about authority and legitimacy defined the membership of the society and inscribed its boundaries. A worthy successor to Spruyt's earlier, and equally brilliant book, The Sovereign State and its Competitors.' Tim Dunne, Professor of International Relations and Pro-Vice-Chancellor, The University of Queensland

Innehållsförteckning

Part I. Beyond the Westphalian Gaze: 1. Introduction; 2. The Historical-Sociological Approach to Understanding Order in International Systems; 3. Collective Beliefs and Visions of Order; Part II. The East Asian Sino-Centric Order: 4. Gathering All Under Heaven: East Asian Collective Beliefs and International Society; 5. The East Asian Inter-State Society and the Westphalian System; Part III. The Islamic Cultural-Historical Community: 6. Lords of the Auspicious Conjunction: The Ottoman, Safavid and Mughal Empires and the Islamic Ecumene; 7. Collective Imagination and the Conduct of Inter-Polity Relations; Part IV. Collective Imagination among the Polities of Southeast Asia: 8. The Galactic Polities of Southeast Asia; 9. Inter-State Relations and the Encounter with the Colonial Powers; 10. Conclusion: Viewing the World in One's own Image.

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