Hendrik SpruytThe World Imagined
Collective Beliefs and Political Order in the Sinocentric, Islamic and Southeast Asian International Societies
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).
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.
