Lora Anne Viola (Freie Universitat Berlin)

The Closure of the International System

How Institutions Create Political Equalities and Hierarchies

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Of interest to students and scholars of international relations theory, global history, and international organizations, this book sheds light on why international institutions remain torn between extending political equality to new actors and monopolizing political rights for an exclusive set of members - and how demands for equality can lead to new inequalities.

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Produktdetails

• Cambridge Studies in International Relations
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 295
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781108711760
• ISBN-10: 1108711766
• Artikelnr.: 67824209

Autorenporträt

Lora Anne Viola is a professor of political science, researching and teaching on international organizations, international relations theory, and US foreign policy. She is co-editor of Historical Institutionalism and International Relations (Oxford University Press, 2016). She is a recipient of the American Political Science Association's Alexander L. George Article Award, as well as research funding from the German National Science Foundation.

Inhaltsangabe

1. False promises of universalism: the interdependent logics of equality
and inequality in the international system; 2. The closure thesis: social
closure, club dynamics, and stratification in the international system; 3.
'The master institution': diplomacy, practices of closure, and the
emergence of an international system in early modern Europe; 4. 'Dwarves
and giants': international law, the monopolization of sovereign rights, and
stratification in the international system; 5. International organizations:
between sovereign equality and the institutionalization of inequality; 6.
What remains of the promise of equality?; Index.