Polite anarchy in international relations theory
By: by Zaheer A Kazmi
Contributors: Kazmi, Zaheer A.
Series: The Palgrave Macmillan history of international thought
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781137028112
Subjects: POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General; Anarchism; International relations; POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory; Philosophy; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Anarchism
Description: "This book re-evaluates the concept of anarchy in International Relations by drawing on anarchist thought. It is the first scholarly work to draw on historical anarchism to construct an international theory premised on the idea of states as anarchists. It puts forward a constructivist account of state behavior, termed 'polite anarchy', to theorize diplomacy, an area of IR which is increasingly recognized within the discipline as being under-theorized, by drawing on a contextual historical study of the idiom of politeness in the anarchist thought of the late-Enlightenment British radical, William Godwin, generally considered to be the founder of modern philosophical anarchism. The book will be of interest to a wide range of scholars and students of International Relations, the history of political thought, international political theory and anarchism, as well as historians and practitioners in the field of diplomacy and Godwin scholars"--