International Systems in World History : Remaking the Study of International Relations Paperback / softback
by Barry (Professor of International Studies, Centre for the Study of Democracy, Professor of In Buzan, Richard (Professor of International Politics, Department of Politics, Professor of Internati Little
Paperback / softback
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This book tells the 60,000 year story of how humankind evolved from a scattering of hunter-gatherer bands to todays highly integrated global international political economy.
It traces the evolution of ever-wider economic, societal and military-political international systems, and the interplay between these systems and the tribes, city states, empires, and modern states into which humans have organised themselves.
Buzan and Little marry a wide range of mainstream International Relations theories to a world historical perspective.
They mount a stinging attack on International Relations as a discipline, arguing that its Eurocentrism, historical narrowness, and theoretical fragmentation have reduced almost to nothing both its cross-disclipinary influence and its ability to think coherently about either the past or the future.
Seeking to emulate and challenge the cross-disciplinary influence of the world systems model, the book recasts the study of International Relations into a macro-historical perspective, shows how its core concepts work across time, and sets out a new theoretical agenda and a new intellectual role for the discipline.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:472 pages, line illustrations and maps
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:13/04/2000
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- ISBN:9780198780656
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:472 pages, line illustrations and maps
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:13/04/2000
- Category:
- ISBN:9780198780656
