Becoming International
Published on 26. October 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
294 pages
978-1-009-40074-9 (ISBN)
Description
When and how did the modern world become an international one? Jens Bartelson, a leading scholar of the history of international thought, provides new answers to this question by analyzing how relations between polities have been conceptualized across different historical contexts from the sixteenth century to the present day. A global intellectual history of the international system, this book challenges the widespread assumption that this system emerged as a result of a transition from empires to states, instead proposing that the international realm is but a continuation of imperial relations by other means. Showing how the international system spread through the creative appropriation of European concepts of nation and state by non-Europeans, Bartelson argues that this system has taken on a life of its own, to the point of becoming an empire in its own right.
Reviews / Votes
'Lucid, learned, and challenging, Becoming International is Jens Bartelson's most ambitious work to date. Its unfailingly critical perspective questions our most fundamental categories - the international and the imperial, the global and the planetary - and will productively reframe myriad pressing contemporary debates.' David Armitage, Author of Foundations of Modern International Thought 'With characteristic boldness, erudition, and conceptual sophistication, Jens Bartelson traces the emergence, proliferation, and ideological functions of the idea that we live in an 'international realm' - a world divided into sovereign states - and how this belief system has framed understandings of politics and disguised the continuity of imperial forms of rule. Original, erudite, and ambitious, Becoming International is a major contribution to political theory and the history of international thought.' Duncan Bell, University of Cambridge '... Bartelson's book makes a provocative argument that is worth taking seriously ... Recommended.' R. M. Paddags, CHOICEMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
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Paperback (trade)
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Dimensions
Height: 227 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
402 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-009-40074-9 (9781009400749)
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Person
Jens Bartelson is Professor of Political Science at Lund University. He is the author of War in International Thought (Cambridge University Press, 2017), Visions of World Community (Cambridge University Press, 2009), The Critique of the State (Cambridge University Press, 2001) and A Genealogy of Sovereignty (Cambridge University Press, 1995), as well as numerous articles in leading journals in international relations, international law, political theory, and sociology.
Content
1. Making sense of the international; 2. Dividing the world; 3. Empire and independence c.1776--c.1825; 4. Empire and self-determination c. 1820-c.1919; 5. The empire of the international; 6. From the international to the global and beyond?.