Andrew Phillips

War, Religion and Empire

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

What are international orders, how are they destroyed, and how can they be defended in the face of violent challenges? Advancing an innovative realist-constructivist account of international order, Andrew Phillips addresses each of these questions in War, Religion and Empire. Phillips argues that international orders rely equally on shared visions of the good and accepted practices of organized violence to cultivate cooperation and manage conflict between political communities. Considering medieval Christendom's collapse and the East Asian Sinosphere's destruction as primary cases, he further argues that international orders are destroyed as a result of legitimation crises punctuated by the disintegration of prevailing social imaginaries, the break-up of empires, and the rise of disruptive military innovations. He concludes by considering contemporary threats to world order, and the responses that must be taken in the coming decades if a broadly liberal international order is to survive.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Studies in International Relations Vol.117
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. September 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 620g
• ISBN-13: 9780521122092
• ISBN-10: 0521122090
• Artikelnr.: 31194742

Autorenporträt

Andrew Phillips is a Research Fellow in the Department of International Relations at the Australian National University. His research interests focus on the evolution of the global state system and the challenges that new security threats pose to the contemporary world order.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; 1. What are international orders?; 2. Accounting for the transformation of international orders; 3. The origins, constitution and decay of Latin Christendom; 4. The collapse of Latin Christendom; 5. Anarchy without society: Europe after Christendom and before sovereignty; 6. The origins, constitution and decay of the sinosphere; 7. Heavenly kingdom, imperial nemesis: barbarians, martyrs and the collapse of the sinosphere; 8. Into the abyss: civilization, barbarism and the end of the sinosphere; 9. The great disorder and the birth of the East Asian sovereign state system; 10. The Jihadist terrorist challenge to the global state system; Conclusion.

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Introduction
1. What are international orders?
2. Accounting for the transformation of international orders
3. The origins, constitution and decay of Latin Christendom
4. The collapse of Latin Christendom
5. Anarchy without society: Europe after Christendom and before sovereignty
6. The origins, constitution and decay of the sinosphere
7. Heavenly kingdom, imperial nemesis: barbarians, martyrs and the collapse of the sinosphere
8. Into the abyss: civilization, barbarism and the end of the sinosphere
9. The great disorder and the birth of the East Asian sovereign state system
10. The Jihadist terrorist challenge to the global state system
Conclusion.

Rezensionen

'This extraordinary conceptual and historical analysis of changes in international orders analyzes the threats that Islamist radicalism and transnational terrorism pose for the present American-centered order through two historical lenses: the collapse of Latin Christendom under the impact of the Reformation and a revolution in war fighting, and the liquidation of the Sinosphere brought about by dynastic decay, millenarian rebellions, and the encroachment of Western imperial expansion. Phillips is theoretically bold and incisive and succeeds in escaping the Western-centric perspective that typifies most contemporary international relations theory. If the second-hands of history, our daily news and pundits, are condemned to tell the wrong time, here is a book for the ages that comes as close to getting things right as is humanly possible. This is a triumph of superior scholarship.' Peter J. Katzenstein, Cornell University