Andrew Phillips

War, Religion and Empire

The Transformation of International Orders

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Produktbeschreibung

What are international orders, how are they destroyed, and how can they be defended in the face of violent challenges? Advancing an innovative realist-constructivist account of international order, Andrew Phillips addresses each of these questions in War, Religion and Empire. Phillips argues that international orders rely equally on shared visions of the good and accepted practices of organized violence to cultivate cooperation and manage conflict between political communities. Considering medieval Christendom's collapse and the East Asian Sinosphere's destruction as primary cases, he further argues that international orders are destroyed as a result of legitimation crises punctuated by the disintegration of prevailing social imaginaries, the break-up of empires, and the rise of disruptive military innovations. He concludes by considering contemporary threats to world order, and the responses that must be taken in the coming decades if a broadly liberal international order is to survive.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 706g
• ISBN-13: 9780521191289
• ISBN-10: 0521191289
• Artikelnr.: 32736121

Autorenporträt

was born in Southampton in 1954, and so I was there when the rise of pop music was taking place in the 1960's, led by The Beatles. I have been a life-long Beatles fan since January 1963, and an avid collector of Beatles memorabilia. I developed a soft spot for The Applejacks in 1964, and since the late 1990's I have also been collecting Applejacks memorabilia. I am also generally interested in many genres of music, and this has resulted in the culmination of a large record/CD collection. My working life was technically based. I attended Sheffield University, graduating with an honours degree in Physics in 1975, and then I obtained a Ph.D in High Energy Physics. I had 40 years in industry, as a nuclear safety consultant, before retiring in 2019. I am now enjoying doing the things that my hectic working life didn't always give enough time for. The writing of this book, telling the story of The Applejacks, fulfils one of my retirement ambitions.I live in Sutton, Surrey with my fiancée Xuejun (Luoluo).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. What are international orders?
2. Accounting for the transformation of international orders
3. The origins, constitution and decay of Latin Christendom
4. The collapse of Latin Christendom
5. Anarchy without society: Europe after Christendom and before sovereignty
6. The origins, constitution and decay of the sinosphere
7. Heavenly kingdom, imperial nemesis: barbarians, martyrs and the collapse of the sinosphere
8. Into the abyss: civilization, barbarism and the end of the sinosphere
9. The great disorder and the birth of the East Asian sovereign state system
10. The Jihadist terrorist challenge to the global state system
Conclusion.

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Introduction; 1. What are international orders?; 2. Accounting for the transformation of international orders; 3. The origins, constitution and decay of Latin Christendom; 4. The collapse of Latin Christendom; 5. Anarchy without society: Europe after Christendom and before sovereignty; 6. The origins, constitution and decay of the sinosphere; 7. Heavenly kingdom, imperial nemesis: barbarians, martyrs and the collapse of the sinosphere; 8. Into the abyss: civilization, barbarism and the end of the sinosphere; 9. The great disorder and the birth of the East Asian sovereign state system; 10. The Jihadist terrorist challenge to the global state system; Conclusion.

Rezensionen

'This extraordinary conceptual and historical analysis of changes in international orders analyzes the threats that Islamist radicalism and transnational terrorism pose for the present American-centered order through two historical lenses: the collapse of Latin Christendom under the impact of the Reformation and a revolution in war fighting, and the liquidation of the Sinosphere brought about by dynastic decay, millenarian rebellions, and the encroachment of Western imperial expansion. Phillips is theoretically bold and incisive and succeeds in escaping the Western-centric perspective that typifies most contemporary international relations theory. If the second-hands of history, our daily news and pundits, are condemned to tell the wrong time, here is a book for the ages that comes as close to getting things right as is humanly possible. This is a triumph of superior scholarship.' Peter J. Katzenstein, Cornell University