Beyond the Anarchical Society Grotius, Colonialism and Order in World Politics

Name: Beyond the Anarchical Society Grotius, Colonialism and Order in World Politics
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ISBN: 9780521008013

ISBN-10: 0521008018

ISBN-13: 9780521008013

Edition: 2002

Authors: Edward Keene, Christopher Greenwood, Michael Leifer, Dominic Lieven, Margot Light

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Edward Keene argues that the conventional idea of an 'anarchical society' of equal and independent sovereign states is an inadequate description of order in modern world politics. International political and legal order has always been dedicated to two distinct goals: to try to promote the toleration of different ways of life, while advocating the adoption of one specific way, that it labels 'civilization'. The nineteenth-century solution to this contradiction was to restrict the promotion of civilization to the world beyond Europe. That discriminatory way of thinking has now broken down, with the result that a single, global order is supposed to apply to everyone, but opinion is still very…

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List price: $37.99
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 7/11/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 180
Size: 6.02" wide x 8.98" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.660
Language: English

Dominic Lieven, a former Kennedy scholar at Harvard University, is professor of Russian government at the London School of Economics.



Introduction



The orthodox theory of order in world politics



The Grotian theory of the law of nations



Colonialism, imperialism and extra-European international politics



Two patterns of modern international order: toleration and civilisation



Order in contemporary world politics, global but divided


Conclusion