Empires Systems And States

Author : Michael Cox,Timothy Dunne,Ken Booth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 052101686X

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Empires, Systems and States by Michael Cox,Timothy Dunne,Ken Booth Pdf

This volume brings together a collection of leading scholars to consider various dimensions of the 'turn' to history in International Relations. The scope of this volume is broad. It includes conventional accounts of the development of the European states system, but is not limited by it. Other essays consider the non-European experience; a number of path-breaking essays on how other cultures and continents have ordered their political communities, in particular, the question how and why a states system triumphed over other forms of political organisation. The theme of the subtitle - great transformations - is pursued by each author. The essays consider one of the biggest questions of our time, namely, how did we arrive at this historical and institutional expression of political community? And what alternative future world orders exist? The volume will be of interest to scholars of International Relations and History interested in great transformations in world politics.

Author : Martin Wight
Publisher : Bloomsbury Continuum
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105036899784

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Systems of States by Martin Wight Pdf

Author : Dr Noel Parker
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781409473428

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Empire and International Order by Dr Noel Parker Pdf

Empires have returned as features of the international scene. With the Cold War's global ideological contest gone, alternative structures such as the War on Terror or the Clash of Civilizations losing credibility, and even the unipolar position of the USA no longer self-evident, the operations of competing empires, history's best known form of order imposed over territories and peoples, acquires renewed credibility. Empire and International Order presents a critical examination of how useful the concept of empire is for understanding varieties of international order across time and place. Original contributions from an international team of upcoming and distinguished scholars analyse a wealth of theoretical approaches alongside contemporary themes enabling the reader to understand the desire to shift the ground of analysis away from the current literature of immediate issue of the US towards the disciplines of international relations, politics, and political/sociological theory.

Author : Jane Burbank,Frederick Cooper
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400834709

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Empires in World History by Jane Burbank,Frederick Cooper Pdf

How empires have used diversity to shape the world order for more than two millennia Empires—vast states of territories and peoples united by force and ambition—have dominated the political landscape for more than two millennia. Empires in World History departs from conventional European and nation-centered perspectives to take a remarkable look at how empires relied on diversity to shape the global order. Beginning with ancient Rome and China and continuing across Asia, Europe, the Americas, and Africa, Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper examine empires' conquests, rivalries, and strategies of domination—with an emphasis on how empires accommodated, created, and manipulated differences among populations. Burbank and Cooper examine Rome and China from the third century BCE, empires that sustained state power for centuries. They delve into the militant monotheism of Byzantium, the Islamic Caliphates, and the short-lived Carolingians, as well as the pragmatically tolerant rule of the Mongols and Ottomans, who combined religious protection with the politics of loyalty. Burbank and Cooper discuss the influence of empire on capitalism and popular sovereignty, the limitations and instability of Europe's colonial projects, Russia's repertoire of exploitation and differentiation, as well as the "empire of liberty"—devised by American revolutionaries and later extended across a continent and beyond. With its investigation into the relationship between diversity and imperial states, Empires in World History offers a fresh approach to understanding the impact of empires on the past and present.

Author : Shmuel N. Eisenstadt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351477154

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The Political Systems of Empires by Shmuel N. Eisenstadt Pdf

Winner of the prestigious MacIver Award when it was first published, this remains a towering work of modern political sociology, especially of macrosociology. Its main objective is comparative analysis of political commonalities found in different societies, both historical and present. The book seeks to find some pattern or laws in the structure and development of such systems. The imaginative use of data helps to bring order into what might otherwise be considered a speculative volume. The purpose of The Political Systems of Empires is to apply sociological concepts to the analysis of historical societies through the comparative analysis of a special type of political system. This analysis does not purport to be historical or descriptive. Its main objective is comparative analysis of political commonalities found in different societies. The book seeks to find some pattern or laws in the structure and development of such systems.

Author : Niv Horesh
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789811615405

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Empires in World History by Niv Horesh Pdf

This study focuses on Empires, from an economic historical perspective. In doing so, it relates current debates in international relations (IR) and politics to the vexed legacy of empires in the past. The book includes analyses of the comparative scholarly literature on Empire in Antiquity, and Empire in the Early Modern and Modern Ages, asking the question if the United Sates is an Empire, and if China an emerging Empire. It contributes to the field given its interdisciplinarity, bringing together both historical and IR insights into world systems in times past. In addition it draws out four key points of separateness between pre-modern and modern empires, and emphases specific economic data. Further to that, the book advances the notion of the emergence of “empires from within” in the 21st century, that is nation-states becoming more multi-ethnic while often stepping back from globalization. And finally it offers future scenarios for the evolution of empires in a Schumpeterian post-industrial world.

Author : Lauren Benton,Richard J. Ross
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-22
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780814708187

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Legal Pluralism and Empires, 1500-1850 by Lauren Benton,Richard J. Ross Pdf

This wide-ranging volume advances our understanding of law and empire in the early modern world. Distinguished contributors expose new dimensions of legal pluralism in the British, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Ottoman empires. In-depth analyses probe such topics as the shifting legal privileges of corporations, the intertwining of religious and legal thought, and the effects of clashing legal authorities on sovereignty and subjecthood. Case studies show how a variety of individuals engage with the law and shape the contours of imperial rule. The volume reaches from Peru to New Zealand to Europe to capture the varieties and continuities of legal pluralism and to probe the analytic power of the concept of legal pluralism in the comparative study of empires. For legal scholars, social scientists, and historians, Legal Pluralism and Empires, 1500-1850 maps new approaches to the study of empires and the global history of law.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004407671

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Empires of the Sea by Anonim Pdf

Empires of the Sea brings together studies of maritime empires from the Bronze Age to the Eighteenth Century. The volume aims to establish maritime empires as a category for the (comparative) study of premodern empires, and from a partly ‘non-western’ perspective. The book includes contributions on Mycenaean sea power, Classical Athens, the ancient Thebans, Ptolemaic Egypt, The Genoese Empire, power networks of the Vikings, the medieval Danish Empire, the Baltic empire of Ancien Régime Sweden, the early modern Indian Ocean, the Melaka Empire, the (non-European aspects of the) Portuguese Empire and Dutch East India Company, and the Pirates of Caribbean.

Author : Sally N. Cummings,Raymond A. Hinnebusch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 0748668551

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Sovereignty After Empire by Sally N. Cummings,Raymond A. Hinnebusch Pdf

This is a unique, systematic comparison of empires and of their consequences for sovereignty in the Middle East and Central Asia. It brings theory on empire and sovereignty to bear on empirical variation across the two regions.

Author : Jennifer Pitts
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780674980815

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Boundaries of the International by Jennifer Pitts Pdf

It is commonly believed that international law originated in respectful relations among free and equal European states. But as Jennifer Pitts shows, international law was forged as much through Europeans' domineering relations with non-European states and empires, leaving a legacy visible in the unequal structures of today's international order.

Author : Michael Doyle
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781501734137

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Empires by Michael Doyle Pdf

Although empires have shaped the political development of virtually all the states of the modern world, "imperialism" has not figured largely in the mainstream of scholarly literature. This book seeks to account for the imperial phenomenon and to establish its importance as a subject in the study of the theory of world politics. Michael Doyle believes that empires can best be defined as relationships of effective political control imposed by some political societies—those called metropoles—on other political societies—called peripheries. To build an explanation of the birth, life, and death of empires, he starts with an overview and critique of the leading theories of imperialism. Supplementing theoretical analysis with historical description, he considers episodes from the life cycles of empires from the classical and modern world, concentrating on the nineteenth-century scramble for Africa. He describes in detail the slow entanglement of the peripheral societies on the Nile and the Niger with metropolitan power, the survival of independent Ethiopia, Bismarck's manipulation of imperial diplomacy for European ends, the race for imperial possession in the 1880s, and the rapid setting of the imperial sun. Combining a sensitivity to historical detail with a judicious search for general patterns, Empires will engage the attention of social scientists in many disciplines.

Author : Deepak Lal
Publisher : American Enterprise Institute
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0844771775

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In Defense of Empires by Deepak Lal Pdf

This monograph suggests that the world needs an American pax to provide both global peace and prosperity.

Author : Kees Van Der Pijl
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2010-04-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105215485355

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The Foreign Encounter in Myth and Religion by Kees Van Der Pijl Pdf

Second volume of Deutscher prize-winning trilogy on the future of IR, tracing the defining characteristics of 'foreign encounters' over time.

Author : Antonello Biagini
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781443865425

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Empires and Nations from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century by Antonello Biagini Pdf

This volume is the result of an international conference held at Sapienza University in Rome on June 20 and 21, 2013, as the final stage of the PRIN (Progetto di rilevante interesse nazionale) project “Empires and Nations from the 18th to the 20th century”, during which scholars from all over the world – academics, specialists, young researchers, PhD students and post-doctorates – confronted diverse, but connected, topics on the relations between multinational empires and the idea of the nation. In this way, the reality of the historical empires and national states was represented, and concepts such as identity, nationality, and sovereignty analyzed. The second volume is dedicated to the age of empires and colonialism, with particular reference to the colonial policy of the Great Powers (England, Russia, and Italy), the reality of post-colonial states, and to the different patterns of decolonization, including specific cases such as South Sudan, Azerbaijan, Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine. Particular attention is paid to the economic systems of different countries and to the area of Southeastern Europe, particularly to Romania and its multicultural area Transylvania. To the Great War and the dissolution of the multinational empires ample space is dedicated, providing insights on border issues, ethnic conflicts, foreign policies, the Adriatic question, and the territorial conflict between Yugoslavia and Italy. The final part of the book analyzes communism, the bipolar system, and the East-West conflict that divided Europe for almost half a century, with specific contributions that discuss post-communist nations and states.

Author : Alexander C. Diener,Joshua Hagen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780197549605

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Borders by Alexander C. Diener,Joshua Hagen Pdf

This second edition of Borders: A Very Short Introduction challenges the perception of borders as passive lines on a map, revealing them instead to be integral forces in the economic, social, political, and environmental processes that shape our lives.