The Scandinavian International Society

Author : Laust Schouenborg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780415519236

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This book provides a comprehensive analysis of Scandinavia as a regional international society, including the Nordic Peace and the rise of the Scandinavian welfare state. Schouenborg aims to take the next big step in the theoretical development of the English School of International Relations - particularly the structural version introduced by Barry Buzan. He analyses the formation of a Scandinavian regional international society over a 200-year period and develops the concepts of ‘primary institutions’ and ‘binding forces’ as an analytical framework. In doing so, he not only offers one of the first systematic applications of English School structural theory, but also sheds a new comparative light on the distinctiveness of Scandinavian international relations, and provides a novel intervention in the debates about the emergence of the so-called Nordic Peace. In the first part of the book Schouenborg explains the core concepts and discusses how one may distinguish a regional international society from the broader global international society in which it is embedded. In the second part he provides an in-depth study of the Scandinavian case, focussing on the periods 1815 to 1919; 1919 to 1989; and 1989 to 2010. The Scandinavian International Societywill be of interest to students and scholars of international relations theory, Scandinavian international relations and history, and researchers engaged in comparative welfare state studies.

Author : Laust Schouenborg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136267161

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The Scandinavian International Society by Laust Schouenborg Pdf

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of Scandinavia as a regional international society, including the Nordic Peace and the rise of the Scandinavian welfare state. Schouenborg aims to take the next big step in the theoretical development of the English School of International Relations - particularly the structural version introduced by Barry Buzan. He analyses the formation of a Scandinavian regional international society over a 200-year period and develops the concepts of ‘primary institutions’ and ‘binding forces’ as an analytical framework. In doing so, he not only offers one of the first systematic applications of English School structural theory, but also sheds a new comparative light on the distinctiveness of Scandinavian international relations, and provides a novel intervention in the debates about the emergence of the so-called Nordic Peace. In the first part of the book Schouenborg explains the core concepts and discusses how one may distinguish a regional international society from the broader global international society in which it is embedded. In the second part he provides an in-depth study of the Scandinavian case, focussing on the periods 1815 to 1919; 1919 to 1989; and 1989 to 2010. The Scandinavian International Society will be of interest to students and scholars of international relations theory, Scandinavian international relations and history, and researchers engaged in comparative welfare state studies.

Author : Laust Schouenborg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Academic theses
ISBN : OCLC:1435973913

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Author : Barry Buzan,Laust Schouenborg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-23
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108427883

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Global International Society by Barry Buzan,Laust Schouenborg Pdf

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 : Christine Ingebritsen
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0742509664

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Scandinavia in World Politics by Christine Ingebritsen Pdf

This clear and engaging text offers a sustained appraisal of Scandinavia's foreign policy and role in the global economy in the post-Cold War period. In an era when good citizenship in the global community has become a diplomatic priority for many states, Christine Ingebritsen argues that Scandinavia has both the legitimacy and the domestic political attributes to be an important international player. She examines how social innovators such as Sweden and Finland seek to influence European integration and how Norway has cultivated a unique and innovative niche in its foreign relations. Scandinavia, she convincingly shows, has become a 'norm entrepreneur, ' exercising its influence abroad through moral leadership-from sponsoring the Nobel Prize and participating in global peacekeeping efforts to providing generous foreign aid and monitoring human rights abuses in the international community. Demonstrating how Scandinavia has made its model of the good society viable on a global scale, this text offers a fascinating case of small-state success and individuality in an increasingly globalized world

Author : Cornelia Navari
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030560553

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International Society by Cornelia Navari Pdf

This book provides an introduction to, and analysis of, the English School’s views on International Relations as they developed from the somewhat vague state/society distinction to the present focus on foundation institutions, regional organisation and the globalization of international society. It focuses on key thinkers and texts and turning points and moves our understanding of the English School beyond the past work of the British Committee to the more recent work of Barry Buzan et. al. to offer a comprehensive overview and interrogation from the leading lights of this arm of International Relations thought. This volume is one of the cornerstones of the EISA sponsored Trends in European IR Theory series complementing the volumes on International Political Theory, Liberalism, Realism, International Political Economy, the post-positivist tradition, and Feminism published for the centenary of IR as a discipline.

Author : Kilian Spandler
Publisher : Springer
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319968964

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Regional Organizations in International Society by Kilian Spandler Pdf

This book explores the normative foundations of ASEAN and the EU. It revives the history of the two organizations in an in-depth narrative of the protracted arguments surrounding their establishment, legal integration and enlargement. While political actors used norms to legitimize their ideas for institutional change, the complex and dynamic nature of these norms also provided the breeding ground for contestation and, sometimes, institutional sclerosis and failure. Recasting these processes in an innovative English School framework, the volume makes a crucial contribution to the literature of Comparative Regionalism that goes beyond Eurocentric perspectives.

Author : Jack Donnelly
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781009355186

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Systems, Relations, and the Structures of International Societies by Jack Donnelly Pdf

Argues that systems approaches are necessary in order to identify and understand important features of the world.

Author : Tonny Brems Knudsen,Cornelia Navari
Publisher : Springer
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319716220

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International Organization in the Anarchical Society by Tonny Brems Knudsen,Cornelia Navari Pdf

This book takes up one of the key theoretical challenges in the English School’s conceptual framework, namely the nature of the institutions of international society. It theorizes their nature through an analysis of the relationship of primary and secondary levels of institutional formation, so far largely ignored in English School theorizing, and provides case studies to illuminate the theory. Hitherto, the School has largely failed to study secondary institutions such as international organizations and regimes as autonomous objects of analysis, seeing them as mere materializations of primary institutions. Building on legal and constructivist arguments about the constitutive character of institutions, it demonstrates how primary institutions frame secondary organizations and regimes, but also how secondary institutions construct agencies with capacities that impinge upon and can change primary institutions. Based on legal and constructivist ideas, it develops a theoretical model that sees primary and secondary institutions as shared understandings enmeshed in observable historical processes of constitution, reproduction and regulation.

Author : Amartya Mukhopadhyay
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2023-10-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000982046

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Postpositivist International Relations Theory by Amartya Mukhopadhyay Pdf

This book discusses postpositivist theories foregrounding postpositivism against the reigning realist and positivist-pluralist orthodoxies. The book explicates seven theories, not as disparate endeavours, but as developments linked by a common thread that seeks to enunciate globalist emancipatory goals for the theoretical field and the world that these theories seek to change. It focuses on the following themes: feminism, environmentalism or green theory, the English school, critical theory, constructivism, postmodernism and postcolonialism. Additionally, a separate chapter on globalization shows that while mainstream (neo)realist international relations theories respond hostilely to globalization and liberal-pluralist theories react benignly to it, postpositivist theories positively welcome it. The book offers a competent meta-theoretical gridwork, showing on which side of the opposing disciplinary positions in the fourth debate each of the seven theories are located. It is a comprehensive guide to the postpositivist restructuring of the discipline of international relations. This book will be of interest to researchers and students of political science, international relations, history, humanities and literature.

Author : Jeremy Youde
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780192542427

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Global Health Governance in International Society by Jeremy Youde Pdf

In the 1980s, health was a marginal issue on the international political agenda, and it barely figured into donor states' foreign aid allocation. Within a generation, health had developed a robust set of governance structures that drive significant global political action, incorporate a wide range of actors, and receive increasing levels of funding. What explains this dramatic change over such a short period of time? Drawing on the English School of international relations theory, this book argues that global health has emerged as a secondary institution within international society. Rather than being a side issue, global health now occupies an important role. Addressing global health issues-financially, organizationally, and politically-is part of how actors demonstrate their willingness and ability to help realize their moral responsibility and obligation to others. In this way, it demonstrates how global health governance has emerged, grown, and persisted-even in the face of global economic challenges and inadequate responses to particular health crises. The book also shows how English School conceptions of international society would benefit from expanding their analytical gaze to address international economic issues and incorporate non-state actors. The book begins by building a case for using the English School to understand the role of global health governance before looking at global health governance's place in international society through case studies about the growth of development assistance for health, the international response to the Ebola outbreak, and China's role within the global health governance framework. .

Author : Gunnar Lind Haase Svendsen,Gert Tinggaard Svendsen
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-26
Category : BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
ISBN : 9781785365584

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Trust, Social Capital and the Scandinavian Welfare State by Gunnar Lind Haase Svendsen,Gert Tinggaard Svendsen Pdf

Explaining the Flight of the Bumblebee

Author : Caroline Grøn,Peter Nedergaard,Anders Wivel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317536611

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The Nordic Countries and the European Union by Caroline Grøn,Peter Nedergaard,Anders Wivel Pdf

In European policy-making, the Nordic countries are often viewed as a relatively coherent bloc; in international and European affairs the Nordic position has traditionally been conditioned on being different from and better than Europe. This book offers a coherent, original and systematic comparative analysis of the relationship between the Nordic countries and the European Union over the past two decades. It looks at the historical frame, institutions and policy areas, addressing both traditional EU areas such as agriculture and more nascent areas affecting the domestic and foreign policies of the Nordic countries. In doing so, it examines how the Nordic approach to European policy-making has developed and explains why the Nordic countries are similar in some respects while differing in others when engaging with EU institutions. In highlighting the similarities and differences between the Nordic countries it explores what lessons – positive and negative – may be drawn from this approach for the Nordic countries and other small states. This book will be of interest to scholars, students and practitioners engaged with the Nordic Countries, EU politics and policy-making, European politics and comparative politics.

Author : Cornelia Navari,Daniel Green
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781118624760

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Guide to the English School in International Studies by Cornelia Navari,Daniel Green Pdf

Bringing together the latest scholarship from a global group of expert contributors, this guide offers a comprehensive examination of the English School approach to the study of international relations. Explains the major ideas of the British Committee on International Relations, including the idea of and institutions connected to an international society, the emerging notion of world society, and order within international relations Describes the English School’s methods of analyzing themes, trends, and dilemmas Focuses on the historical and geographical expansion of international society, and particularly on the effects of colonization and imperialism Serves as an essential reference for students, researchers, and academics in international relations

Author : Norbert Götz,Heidi Haggrén
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134045952

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Regional Cooperation and International Organizations by Norbert Götz,Heidi Haggrén Pdf

This book explores the roles of national actors within international organizations, with particular emphasis on the collaborative approach adopted by Nordic governments and associations. Analyzing Nordic regional cooperation within international organizations, this volume seeks to shed light on the politics of alignment and distinct macro-regional identity-building in international arenas. Exploring the middle ground between the national and the international, contributors discuss how Nordic governments and associations have successfully created and used the image of a distinct group within the international system and where they have failed. Presenting a richer picture of international and transnational relations, the volume’s features include: a key focus on the ‘Nordic model’ with its schism in regard to the EU studies on cooperation between governments and within civil society, including trade unions and anti-EU movements contributions from Nordic and international experts highly respected in their fields Seeking to move beyond neo-realist and cosmopolitan approaches in international studies, Regional Cooperation and International Organizations will be of interest to students and scholars of international relations, regionalism, Nordic studies, and Transnationalism.