Hierarchies in World Politics: 144 (Cambridge Studies in International Relations)

Cambridge University Press, 9/7/2017
EAN 9781108416634, ISBN10: 1108416632

Hardcover, 344 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.1 cm
Language: English

Globalizing processes are gathering increased attention for complicating the nature of political boundaries, authority and sovereignty. Recent examples of global financial and political turmoil have also created a sense of unease about the durability of the modern international order and the ability of our existing theoretical frameworks to explain system dynamics. In light of the inadequacies of traditional international relation (IR) theories in explaining the contemporary global context, a growing range of scholars have been seeking to make sense of world politics through an analytical focus on hierarchies instead. Until now, the explanatory potential of such research agendas and their implications for the discipline went unrecognized, partly due to the fragmented nature of the IR field. To address this gap, this ground-breaking book brings leading IR scholars together in a conversation on hierarchy and thus moves the discipline in a direction better equipped to deal with the challenges of the twenty-first century.

Introduction. Theorizing hierarchies Ayse Zarakol
Part I. Forms of Hierarchy – Origins, Nature and Intersections
1. Laws and norms in the making of international hierarchies David Lake
2. Making empires
hierarchy, conquest and customization Andrew Phillips
3. Hierarchy and paternalism Michael Barnett
4. Revealing international hierarchy through gender lenses Laura Sjoberg
5. Against authority
the heavy weight of international hierarchy Vincent Pouliot
Part II. How Actors Experience Hierarchies
6. Hierarchy in an age of equality
micro-states and dependencies J. C. Sharman
7. 'Command and control?' Hierarchy in the politics of foreign military bases Alex Cooley
8. Leading authority as hierarchy among INGOs Sarah Stroup and Wendy Wong
9. 'Lazy Greeks' and 'Nazi Germans'
negotiating international hierarchies in the Euro crisis Rebecca Adler-Nissen
10. 'Subcultural groupings' in international system hierarchy
China in Africa Shogo Suzuki
Conclusion
11. Beyond hierarchy Jack Donnelly
12. Why hierarchy? Ayse Zarakol
Bibliography.