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Culture and Order in World Politics

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Andrew Phillips, Christian Reus-Smit, Ayse Zarakol, James Millward, Victoria Tin-bor Hui, Andrew Hurrell, G. John Ikenberry, Ellen Berrey, Ann Swidler, Arnulf Becker-Lorca, Michael Barnett, Maria Birnbaum, Ann Towns, Elif Kalaycioglu
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  • Date Published: January 2020
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  • format: Hardback
  • isbn: 9781108484978

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  • 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
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    Awards

    • Winner, 2020 ISA Theory Section Prize for the Best Edited Book, International Studies Association
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    '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

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    Product details

    • Date Published: January 2020
    • format: Hardback
    • isbn: 9781108484978
    • length: 440 pages
    • dimensions: 234 x 151 x 23 mm
    • weight: 0.6kg
    • availability: 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.

  • Editors

    Andrew Phillips, University of Queensland
    Andrew Phillips is Associate Professor in International Relations at the University of Queensland. His research concentrates primarily on the historical evolution of international orders since 1500. He is the author of War, Religion and Empire: The Transformation of International Orders (Cambridge, 2011). His book with J. C. Sharman, International Order in Diversity: War, Trade and Rule in the Indian Ocean (Cambridge, 2015), was co-winner of the International Studies Association History Section's 2017 Francesco Guicciardini prize in Historical International Relations, and also co-winner of the 2017 American Political Science Association's International Politics and History best book prize.

    Christian Reus-Smit, University of Queensland
    Christian Reus-Smit is Professor and Chair in International Relations at the University of Queensland, and a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. Among his other books, he is the author of International Relations: A Very Short Introduction (forthcoming), On Cultural Diversity (Cambridge, 2018), Individual Rights and the Making of the International System (Cambridge, 2013), American Power and World Order (2004), The Moral Purpose of the State (1999), and co-author of Special Responsibilities: Global Problems and American Power (2012). He has been awarded the ISA Theory Section Best Edited Book Award (2018, with Tim Dunne), the Susan Strange Book Prize (2014), the BISA Best Article Prize (2002), and the Northedge Best Article Prize (1992).

    Contributors

    Andrew Phillips, Christian Reus-Smit, Ayse Zarakol, James Millward, Victoria Tin-bor Hui, Andrew Hurrell, G. John Ikenberry, Ellen Berrey, Ann Swidler, Arnulf Becker-Lorca, Michael Barnett, Maria Birnbaum, Ann Towns, Elif Kalaycioglu

    Awards

    • Winner, 2020 ISA Theory Section Prize for the Best Edited Book, International Studies Association
    • Honorable Mention, 2020 ISA History Section Joseph Fletcher Prize for an Edited Volume, International Studies Association
    • Winner, 2020 Choice Outstanding Academic Title

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