Culture and order in world politics: diversity and its discontents
Gespeichert in:
Bibliographische Detailangaben
Weitere beteiligte Personen: Phillips, Andrew 1977- (HerausgeberIn), Reus-Smit, Christian 1961- (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY Cambridge University Press 2020
Schriftenreihe:LSE international studies
Schlagwörter:
Abstract:"Understanding how cultural diversity relates to international order is an urgent contemporary challenge. Building on ideas first advanced in Reus-Smit's On Cultural Diversity (2018), this book advances a new framework for understanding the nexus between culture and order in world politics. Through a pioneering interdisciplinary collaboration between leading historians, international lawyers, sociologists, and international relations scholars, it argues that cultural diversity in social life is ubiquitous rather than exceptional, and demonstrates that the organization of cultural diversity has been inextricably tied to the constitution and legitimation of political authority in diverse international orders, from Warring States China, through early-Modern Europe and the Ottoman and Qing Empires, to today's global liberal order. It highlights the successive 'diversity regimes' that have been constructed to govern cultural difference since the nineteenth century, traces the exclusions and resistances these projects have engendered, and considers contemporary global vulnerabilities and axes of contestation"--
Umfang:xv, 379 Seiten
ISBN:9781108718936
9781108484978