Research Catalog

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Description

1. xvi, 564 pages; 23 cm

Summary

1. "Andrew Linklater's The Problem of Harm in World Politics (Cambridge, 2011) created a new agenda for the sociology of states-systems. Violence and Civilization in the Western States-Systems builds on the author's attempts to combine the process-sociological investigation of civilizing processes and the English School analysis of international society in a higher synthesis. Adopting Martin Wight's comparative approach to states-systems and drawing on the sociological work of Norbert Elias, Linklater asks how modern Europeans came to believe themselves to be more 'civilized' than their medieval forebears. He investigates novel combinations of violence and civilization through a broad historical scope from classical antiquity, Latin Christendom and Renaissance Italy to the post-Second World War era. This book will interest all students with an interdisciplinary commitment to investigating long-term patterns of change in world politics"--

Subject

1. Nation-state
2. International relations
3. Civilization, Modern
4. Civilization, Western
5. Civil society
6. Violence
7. POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General
8. Staatensystem
9. Zivilisation
10. Gewalt
11. Westliche Welt

Contents

1. Introduction -- The Hellenic city-states system -- New territorial concentrations of power in antiquity -- The international relations of Latin Christendom -- The Renaissance city-state system -- The European states-system and the idea of civilization -- Cruelty and compassion in the Age of Empire -- Enlightenment thought and global civilization -- Total warfare and decivilizing processes -- Modernity, civilization and the Holocaust -- Sovereignty, citizenship and humanity in the global civilizing process -- Process sociology, civilization and international society -- Conclusion.

Call number

1. JFE 17-4037

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 472-537) and index.

Author

1. Linklater, Andrew, author.

Title

1. Violence and civilization in the Western states-systems / Andrew Linklater.

Publisher

1. Cambridge, United Kngdom : Cambridge University Press, 2016.

Copyright date

1. ©2016

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 472-537) and index.

LCCN

1. 2016049389

Other standard identifier

1. 40026877886

ISBN

1. 9781107154735 (hardback)
2. 1107154731 (hardback)
3. 9781316608333 (paperback)
4. 1316608336 (paperback)

Research call number

1. JFE 17-4037