Hendrik Spruyt (Illinois Northwestern University)

The World Imagined

Collective Beliefs and Political Order in the Sinocentric, Islamic and Southeast Asian International Societies

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Spruyt explains how collective belief systems influenced the political order in three non-European societies c.1500â 1900, and the way in which these polities engaged the Western colonial empires. The inter-disciplinary approach of this book will appeal to students and scholars of international relations, historical sociology and global history.

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Produktdetails

• LSE International Studies
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 410
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. August 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 155mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 594g
• ISBN-13: 9781108811743
• ISBN-10: 1108811744
• Artikelnr.: 58533161

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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.