International Systems in World History Remaking the Study of International Relations

Name: International Systems in World History Remaking the Study of International Relations
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ISBN: 9780198780656

ISBN-10: 0198780656

ISBN-13: 9780198780656

Edition: 2000

Authors: Barry Buzan, Richard Little

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This book tells the 60,000 year story of how humankind evolved from a scattering of hunter-gatherer bands to todays highly integrated global international political economy. It traces the evolution of ever-wider economic, societal and military-political international systems, and the interplay between these systems and the tribes, city states, empires, and modern states into which humans have organised themselves. Buzan and Little marry a wide range of mainstream International Relations theories to a world historical perspective. They mount a stinging attack on International Relations as a discipline, arguing that its Eurocentrism, historical narrowness, and theoretical fragmentation have…

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List price: $70.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/22/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 472
Size: 6.73" wide x 9.69" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 1.914
Language: English



Detailed Contents


Introduction



International Systems, World History, and International Relations Theory



Systems, History, Theory, and the Study of International Relations



Competing Conceptions of the International System



Systemic Thinking in World History



The Theoretical Toolkit of this Book



Establishing Criteria for International Systems



Systems in Pre-International World History



The Origins of Pre-international Systems



The Transition from Pre-international to International Systems



The Rise and Interlinkage of Multiple International Systems in the Ancient and Classical World



The New Units: City-States, Empires, and Barbarians as the Main Actors of the Ancient and Classical World



Interaction Capacity in Ancient and Classical International Systems



Process in Ancient and Classical International Systems



Structure in Ancient and Classical International Systems



The Establishment and Evolution of a Global International System



Units in the Modern International System



Interaction Capacity in the Modern International System



Process in the Modern International System



Structure in the Modern International System



Speculations, Assessments, Reflections



Outlook: A Postmodern International System?



What World History Tells us about International Relations Theory



What International Relations Theory Tells us about World History



Reflections


References


Glossary


Index