Risk and hierarchy in international society
Subtitle: liberal interventionism in the post-Cold War era
By: William Clapton, Lecturer in International Relations,the University of New South Wales, Australia
Series: Palgrave studies in international relations
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9781137396365
Subjects: Democratization; International cooperation; Risk management; International relations; World politics; POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Arms Control; POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory; POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / International Security; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / General
Description: "The English School of International Relations has traditionally maintained that international society is anarchical and cannot accommodate hierarchical relationships between states. This book provides an innovative theoretical and conceptual approach that challenges this view, demonstrating that international society can accommodate hierarchies between sovereign states.Synthesising the concept of international society with elements of Beck's 'risk society', Clapton explores a particular set of hierarchies in the post-Cold War era that are characterised by interventions conducted by Western states in non-Western territories to promote liberal democratic government. Exploring interventions along the European Union's periphery, in the South Pacific and in Iraq, Clapton argues that these interventions are essentially exercises in risk management, designed to promote liberalism and democracy as a means of managing globalized risks to the security of Western states, such as terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: 1. Introduction2. The Hierarchical Society 3. Risk and International Society4. The Management of Risk5. Managing Risks in Europe's Periphery: The European Neighbourhood Policy6. Australia and the Management of Risk in the South Pacific7. Preventing Risks and Changing Regimes: The 2003 Invasion of Iraq8. Conclusion.