Yao The ideal river

How control of nature shaped the international order
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-5261-5439-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 264 Seiten

This book examines the geographical imaginaries that underpinned international efforts to create the first international organizations along the Rhine, Danube, and Congo Rivers. In doing so, these imaginaries helped constitute the early international order in the nineteenth century and continues to underpin modern global governance today.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Yao, Joanne

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Staats- und Verfassungsrecht
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Umwelt- und Gesundheitspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Geopolitik
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltpolitik, Umweltprotokoll
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Diplomatie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: The ideal river
1 The taming of nature, legitimate authority, and international order
2 Taming the internal highway: Constructing the Rhine
3 The 1815 Congress of Vienna and the oldest continuous interstate institution
4 Disciplining the connecting river: Constructing the Danube
5 The 1856 Treaty of Paris and the first international organization
6 Civilizing the imperial river: Constructing the Congo
7 The 1885 Berlin Conference and the international organization that never was
8 History is a river: The taming of nature into the twenty-first century
Conclusion: The strong brown god of the Anthropocene

Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Joanne Yao is a Senior Lecturer in International Relations at Queen Mary, University of London