The Steppe Tradition in International Relations
Subtitle: Russians, Turks and European State Building 4000 BCE-2017 CE
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Sep 06, 2018
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9781108420792
Description: Argues that the Eurasian steppe political tradition has been globally influential, particularly in the socio-political formation of modern Russia and Turkey.

Neumann and Wigen counter Euro-centrism in the study of international relations by providing a full account of political organisation in the Eurasian steppe from the fourth millennium BCE up until the present day. Drawing on a wide range of archaeological and historical secondary sources, alongside social theory, they discuss the pre-history, history and effect of what they name the 'steppe tradition'. Writing from an International Relations perspective, the authors give a full treatment of the steppe tradition's role in early European state formation, as well as explaining how politics in states like Turkey and Russia can be understood as hybridising the steppe tradition with an increasingly dominant European tradition.
Notes: Source title: The Steppe Tradition in International Relations: Russians, Turks and European State Building 4000 BCE-2017 CE