Violence and civilization in the Western states-systems

Introduction. - 1. The Hellenic city-states system. - 2. New territorial concentrations of power in antiquity. - 3. The international relations of Latin Christendom. - 4. The Renaissance city-state system. - 5. The European states-system and the idea of civilization. - 6. Cruelty and compassion in t...

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1. Verfasser: Linklater, Andrew (VerfasserIn)
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Veröffentlicht: Cambridge, United Kingdom Cambridge University Press 2016
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Zusammenfassung:Introduction. - 1. The Hellenic city-states system. - 2. New territorial concentrations of power in antiquity. - 3. The international relations of Latin Christendom. - 4. The Renaissance city-state system. - 5. The European states-system and the idea of civilization. - 6. Cruelty and compassion in the Age of Empire. - 7. Enlightenment thought and global civilization. - 8. Total warfare and decivilizing processes. - 9. Modernity, civilization and the Holocaust. - 10. Sovereignty, citizenship and humanity in the global civilizing process. - 11. Process sociology, civilization and international society. - Conclusion.
"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"--
"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 more 'civilized' than their medieval forbears"--
Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. The Hellenic city-states system; 2. New territorial concentrations of power in antiquity; 3. The international relations of Latin Christendom; 4. The Renaissance city-state system; 5. The European states-system and the idea of civilization; 6. Cruelty and compassion in the Age of Empire; 7. Enlightenment thought and global civilization; 8. Total warfare and decivilizing processes; 9. Modernity, civilization and the Holocaust; 10. Sovereignty, citizenship and humanity in the global civilizing process; 11. Process sociology, civilization and international society; Conclusion
Beschreibung:Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 472-537 ; Index: Seite 538-564
Beschreibung:xvi, 564 Seiten
23 cm
ISBN:9781316608333
978-1-316-60833-3
9781107154735
978-1-107-15473-5