Culture and Order in World Politics
Culture and Order in World Politics
Understanding how cultural diversity relates to international order is an urgent contemporary challenge. Building on ideas first advanced in Reus-Smit's On Cultural Diversity (2018), this groundbreaking book advances a new framework for understanding the nexus between culture and order in world politics. Through a pioneering interdisciplinary collaboration between leading historians, international lawyers, sociologists and international relations scholars, it argues that cultural diversity in social life is ubiquitous rather than exceptional, and demonstrates that the organization of cultural diversity has been inextricably tied to the constitution and legitimation of political authority in diverse international orders, from Warring States China, through early modern Europe and the Ottoman and Qing Empires, to today's global liberal order. It highlights the successive 'diversity regimes' that have been constructed to govern cultural difference since the nineteenth century, traces the exclusions and resistances these projects have engendered and considers contemporary global vulnerabilities and axes of contestation.
- Develops Phillips' and Reus-Smit's groundbreaking research on the nature and transformation of international orders
- Brings together an inter-disciplinary team of world-class scholars
- Explores the relationship between the organization of cultural diversity and the legitimation of political authority in historical and contemporary international relations
Awards
Winner, 2020 ISA Theory Section Prize for the Best Edited Book, International Studies Association
Reviews & endorsements
‘The second volume of a trilogy, this brilliantly conceived and executed book draws on multiple disciplines (sociology, law, history, and political theory) to develop its central argument. Cultural diversity is patterned by diversity regimes (Ottoman, Chinese, Westphalian) and traceable in a large number of variegated domains (such as religion, gender, law, and global cultural heritage). The compelling results are a wake-up call for much IR scholarship. Culture nap time is over.' Peter J. Katzenstein, Walter S. Carpenter, Jr. Professor of International Studies, Cornell University, New York
‘This volume pulls off a seemingly impossible task: to illuminate the role of culture in international orders without treating ‘culture' as static, homogenous and bounded. Once and for all we can see beyond the clash of civilizations to better apprehend how cultural diversity matters for world politics.' Julian Go, Boston University, and author of Patterns of Empire
'Culture and Order in World Politics is a path-breaking collection that sets out a novel and interdisciplinary approach for systematically studying culture, and its impact, in global politics. Challenging the past tendency in IR to subscribe to either simplistic or outdated conceptions of culture, the contributors draw on insights from anthropology, sociology, history and cultural studies to demonstrate how different international orders over time have been shaped by cultural difference. The book's historical breadth, which places the much discussed 'liberal international order' in perspective, along with its theoretically-rich treatment of cultural diversity, will make it essential reading for those seeking to grapple with the enduring reality of cultural diversity and its relationship to international order.' Jennifer Welsh, European University Institute, Italy
‘… Phillips and Reus-Smit (both, international relations, Univ. of Queensland, Australia) offer a pathbreaking collection on international relations. Written by outstanding international relations scholars … This is an absolutely required addition to the literature on international relations.’ S. R. Silverburg, Choice
Product details
January 2020Hardback
9781108484978
440 pages
234 × 151 × 23 mm
0.6kg
Available
Table of Contents
- Part I. Introduction:
- 1. Introduction Andrew Phillips and Christian Reus-Smit
- 2. Culture and order in world politics Andrew Phillip and Christian Reus-Smit
- Part II. Historical Orders:
- 3. The Ottomans and diversity Ayse Zarakol
- 4. Qing and twentieth century Chinese diversity regimes James Millward
- 5. Cultural diversity and coercive homogenization in Chinese history Victoria Tin-bor Hui
- Part III. The Modern 'Liberal' Order:
- 6. Cultural diversity with global international society Andrew Hurrell
- 7. Liberal internationalism and cultural diversity G. John Ikenberry
- 8. When liberal states bite back: the micro-politics of culture Ellen Berrey
- 9. Global institutional imaginaries Ann Swidler
- Part IV. Constitution and Contestation:
- 10. Universal and European: cultural diversity in international law Arnulf Becker-Lorca
- 11. The Jewish problem in international society Michael Barnett
- 12. Recognizing diversity: establishing religious difference in Pakistan and Israel Maria Birnbaum
- 13. Gender, nation, and the generation of cultural difference across 'the West' Ann Towns
- 14. Governing culture 'credibly': contestation in the world heritage regime Elif Kalaycioglu
- 15. Conclusion Andrew Phillips and Christian Reus-Smit
- References
- Index.
