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.
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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.
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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
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Provides a new framework for reconceptualizing the historical and contemporary relationship between cultural diversity, political authority, and international order.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781108718936
Publisert
2020-01-09
Utgiver
Vendor
Cambridge University Press
Vekt
600 gr
Høyde
230 mm
Bredde
153 mm
Dybde
25 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
440

Biographical note

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 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).