OUVRAGE : T. Dunne, C. Reus-Smit (eds.), The Globalization of International Society

Tim DUNNE, Christian REUS-SMIT

The Globalization of International Society re-examines the development of today's society of sovereign states, drawing on a wealth of new scholarship to challenge the landmark account presented in Bull and Watson's classic work, The Expansion of International Society (OUP, 1984). For Bull and Watson, international society originated in Europe, and expanded as successive waves of new states were integrated into a rule-governed order. International society, on their view, was thus a European cultural artefact - a claim that is at odds with recent scholarship in history, politics, and related fields of research.

Bringing together leading scholars from Asia, Australia, Europe, and the United States, this book provides an alternative account: it draws out the diversity of polities that existed at around c1500; it shows how interacting identities, political orders, and economic forces were intensifying within and across regions; it details the tangled dynamics that helped to globalize the European conception of a pluralist international society, through patterns of warfare and between East and West.

The Globalization of International Society examines the institutional contours of contemporary international society, with its unique blend of universal sovereignty and global law, and its forms of hierarchy that coexist with commitments to international human rights. The book explores the multiple forms of contestation that challenge international society today: contests over the limits of sovereignty in relation to cosmopolitan conceptions of responsibility, disputes over global governance, concerns about persistent economic, racial, and gender-based patterns of disadvantage, and lastly the threat to the established order opened up by the disruptive power of digital communications. 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Part I. Introduction

1. Christian Reus-Smit, Tim Dunne, Introduction
2. Christian Reus-Smit, Tim Dunne, The Globalization of International Society

Part II. Global Context

3. Andrew Phillips, International Systems
4. Heather Rae, Patterns of Identification on the Cusp of Globalization
5. Hendrik Spruyt, Economies and Economic Integration Across Eurasia in the Early Modern Period
6. Neta C. Crawford, Native Americans and the Making of International Society

Part III. Dynamics of Globalization

7. Richard Devetak, Emily Tannock, Imperial Rivalry and the First Global War
8. Jennifer M. Welsh, Empire and Fragmentation
9. Paul Keal, Beyond 'War in the Strict Sense'
10. Jacinta O'Hagan, The Role of Civilization in the Globalization of International Society
11. Yongjin Zhang, Worlding China, 1500-1800

Part IV: Institutional Contours

12. Barry Buzan,Universal Sovereignty
13. Ian Clark, Hierarchy, Hegemony, and the Norms of International Society
14. Gerry Simpson, The Globalization of International Law
15. Mark Beeson, Stephen Bell, The Impact of Economic Structures on Institutions and States
16. Hun Joon Kim, Universal Human Rights

Part V. Contestation

17. Sarah Teitt, Sovereignty as Responsibility
18. Ian Hall, The 'Revolt Against the West' Revisited
19. Audie Klotz, Racial Inequality
20. Ann E. Towns, Gender, Power, and International Society
21. Lene Hansen, Communication

Part VI. Conclusion

22. Tim Dunne, Christian Reus-Smit, Conclusion

 

Tim DUNNE, Christian REUS-SMIT (eds.), The Globalization of International Society, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2017 (528 pp.)