The rise of non-Western Great Powers, the spread of transnational religiously-justified insurgencies, and the resurgence of ethno-nationalism raise fundamental questions about the effects of cultural diversity on international order. Yet current debate - among academics, popular commentators, and policy-makers alike - rests on flawed understandings of culture and inaccurate assumptions about how historically cultural diversity has shaped the evolution of international orders. In this path-breaking book, Christian Reus-Smit details how the major theories of international relations have consistently misunderstood the nature and effects of culture, returning time and again to a conception long abandoned in specialist fields: the idea of cultures as coherent, bounded, and constitutive. Drawing on theoretical insights from anthropology, cultural studies, and sociology, and informed by new histories of diverse historical orders, this book presents a new theoretical account of the relationship between cultural diversity and international order: an account with far-reaching implications for how we understand contemporary transformations.
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1. The road not taken; 2. Cultured realism; 3. The culture of international society; 4. Culture as norms; 5. Rational culture; 6. The organization of diversity; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
Critically evaluates how international relations theories have conceived culture, and advances a new account of cultural diversity and international order.
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781108473859
Publisert
2018-08-09
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Vendor
Cambridge University Press
Vekt
520 gr
Høyde
235 mm
Bredde
155 mm
Dybde
18 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
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Antall sider
274
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