War, Religion and Empire: The Transformation Of International Orders (Cambridge Studies in International Relations)
Cambridge University Press, 12/23/2010
EAN 9780521122092, ISBN10: 0521122090
Paperback, 384 pages, 23 x 15.5 x 2 cm
Language: English
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.
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.