The global transformation
Subtitle: history, modernity and the making of international relations
By: Barry Buzan and George Lawson
Contributors: Lawson, George, 1972-
Series: Cambridge studies in international relations -- 135; Cambridge studies in international relations -- 135.
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9781107630802; 9781107035577
Subjects: World politics; International relations; History
Description: "The 'long nineteeenth century' (1776-1914) was a period of political, economic, military and cultural revolutions that re-forged both domestic and international societies. Neither existing international histories nor International Relations texts sufficiently register the scale and impact of this 'global transformation', yet it is the consequences of these multiple revolutions that provide the material and ideational foundations of modern international relations"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 334-371) and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I. The Global Transformation and IR: 1. The global transformation; 2. IR and the nineteenth century; title: Part II. The Making of Modern International Relations: 3. Shrinking the planet; 4. Ideologies of progress; 5. The transformation of political units; 6. Establishing a core-periphery international order; 7. Eroding the core-periphery international order; 8. The transformation of great powers, great power relations and war; title: Part III. Implications: 9. From 'centred globalism' to 'decentred globalism'; 10. Rethinking international relations.