| Violence and Civilization in the Western States-Systems Contributor(s): Linklater, Andrew (Author) |
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ISBN: 1107154731 ISBN-13: 9781107154735 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $145.35 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | International Relations - General - History | Civilization - Social Science | Violence In Society |
| Dewey: 303.609 |
| LCCN: 2016049389 |
| Physical Information: 1.23" H x 9.25" W x 6.51" (2.26 lbs) 580 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Andrew Linklater's The Problem of Harm in World Politics (Cambridge, 2011) created a new agenda for the sociology of states-systems. Violence and Civilization in the Western States-Systems builds on the author's attempts to combine the process-sociological investigation of civilizing processes and the English School analysis of international society in a higher synthesis. Adopting Martin Wight's comparative approach to states-systems and drawing on the sociological work of Norbert Elias, Linklater asks how modern Europeans came to believe themselves to be more 'civilized' than their medieval forebears. He investigates novel combinations of violence and civilization through a broad historical scope from classical antiquity, Latin Christendom and Renaissance Italy to the post-Second World War era. This book will interest all students with an interdisciplinary commitment to investigating long-term patterns of change in world politics. |
Contributor Bio(s): Linklater, Andrew: - Andrew Linklater is Woodrow Wilson Professor of International Politics at Aberystwyth University, a Fellow of the British Academy and a member of the Academy of Social Science and the Learned Society of Wales. He has published extensively on theories of international relations and on the importance of process sociology for the study of international society. His previous books include Men and Citizens in the Theory of International Relations (1982), Beyond Realism and Marxism (1990), The Transformation of Political Community (1998), The English School of International Relations, co-authored with Hidemi Suganami (Cambridge, 2010) and The Problem of Harm in World Politics (Cambridge, 2011). |