International Systems in World History

Remaking the Study of International Relations
Erscheinungsjahr 2000
ISBN: 978-0-19-878065-6
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 472 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 811 g

This book tells the 60,000 year story of how humankind evolved from a scattering of hunter-gatherer bands to todays highly integrated global international political economy. It traces the evolution of ever-wider economic, societal and military-political international systems, and the interplay between these systems and the tribes, city states, empires, and modern states into which humans have organised themselves. Buzan and Little marry a wide range of mainstream International Relations theories to a world historical perspective. They mount a stinging attack on International Relations as a discipline, arguing that its Eurocentrism, historical narrowness, and theoretical fragmentation have reduced almost to nothing both its cross-disclipinary influence and its ability to think coherently about either the past or the future. Seeking to emulate and challenge the cross-disciplinary influence of the world systems model, the book recasts the study of International Relations into a macro-historical perspective, shows how its core concepts work across time, and sets out a new theoretical agenda and a new intellectual role for the discipline.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Buzan, Barry

Little, Richard

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Part I: International Systems, World History, and International Relations Theory

- Chapter 1 Systems, History, Theory and the Study of International Relations

- Chapter 2 Competing Conceptions of the International System

- Chapter 3 Systemic Thinking in World History

- Chapter 4 The Theoretical Toolkit of this Book

- Chapter 5 Establishing Criteria for International Systems

- Part II: Systems in Pre-International World History

- Chapter 6 The Origins of Pre-International Systems

- Chapter7 The Transition from Pre-International to International Systems

- Part III: The Rise and Interlinkage of Multiple International Systems in the Ancient and Classical World

- Chapter 8 The New Units: City States, Empires and Barbarians as the Main Actors of the Ancient and Classical World

- Chapter 9 Interaction Capacity

- Chapter 10 Process

- Chapter 11 Structure

- Part IV: The Establishment and Evolution of a Global International System

- Chapter 12 Units

- Chapter 13 Interaction Capacity

- Chapter 14 Process

- Chapter 15 Structure

- Part V: Speculations, Assessments, Reflections

- Chapter 17 What World History tells us about International Relations Theory

- Chapter 18 What International Relations Theory tells us about World History

- Chapter 19 Reflections

Über Autor(innen)

Barry Buzan is Research Professor of International Studies at the University of Westminster and Project Director of the European Security Group at the Copenhagen Peace Research Institute. Prior to this he was Professor of International Relations at the University of Warwick. He has been visiting professor at the International University of Japan and has also been an Olof Palme visiting professor and adviser on foreign affairs to the Swedish government. He is the author of numerous books on International Relations and from 1988-90 was the Chairman of the British International Studies Association.

Richard Little is Professor of International Politics in the Department of Politics at the University of Bristol. Before this he was at the Open University and Lancaster University and has held fellowships at the University of Auckland in New Zealand and the Australian National University. He was editor of the Review of International Studies from 1990-94 and is currently Vice Chair of the B