When and how did the modern world become an international one? Jens Bartelson, a leading scholar of the history of international thought, provides new answers to this question by analyzing how relations between polities have been conceptualized across different historical contexts from the sixteenth...

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Main Author:	Bartelson, Jens (Author)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2023
Edition:	First edition
Subjects:	International relations / History World politics Internationale Politik Weltordnung Weltpolitik Internationalisierung Internationales politisches System
Online Access:	DE-12 DE-473 Volltext
Summary:	When and how did the modern world become an international one? Jens Bartelson, a leading scholar of the history of international thought, provides new answers to this question by analyzing how relations between polities have been conceptualized across different historical contexts from the sixteenth century to the present day. A global intellectual history of the international system, this book challenges the widespread assumption that this system emerged as a result of a transition from empires to states, instead proposing that the international realm is but a continuation of imperial relations by other means. Showing how the international system spread through the creative appropriation of European concepts of nation and state by non-Europeans, Bartelson argues that this system has taken on a life of its own, to the point of becoming an empire in its own right
Item Description:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 13 Oct 2023) Making sense of the international -- Dividing the world -- Empire and independence c. 1776-c. 1825 -- Empire and self-determination c. 1820-c. 1919 -- The empire of the international -- From the international to the global and beyond?
Physical Description:	1 Online-Ressource (xi, 281 Seiten)
ISBN:	9781009400718
DOI:	10.1017/9781009400718