The Making of Global International Relations: Origins and Evolution of IR at its Centenary - Hardcover

Acharya, Amitav; Buzan, Barry

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1108480179 ISBN 13: 9781108480178

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2019

Synopsis

This book presents a challenge to the discipline of international relations (IR) to rethink itself, in the light of both its own modern origins, and the two centuries of world history that have shaped it. By tracking the development of thinking about IR, and the practice of world politics, this book shows how they relate to each other across five time periods from nineteenth-century colonialism, through two world wars, the Cold War and decolonization, to twenty-first-century globalization. It gives equal weight to both the neglected voices and histories of the Global South, and the traditionally dominant perspectives of the West, showing how they have moved from nearly complete separation to the beginnings of significant integration. The authors argue that IR needs to continue this globalizing movement if it is to cope with the rapidly emerging post-Western world order, with its more diffuse distribution of wealth, power and cultural authority.

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Book Description

A deep exploration of the emergence and development of modern international relations (IR) thinking in both the West and the Global South, relating the story of the field systematically to the world politics of the last two centuries. For students and scholars of international relations, particularly IR theory, the history of the discipline, and non-Western approaches.

About the Author

Amitav Acharya is Distinguished Professor at the School of International Service, American University, Washington DC. His recent books include Constructing Global Order (Cambridge, 2018) and The End of American World Order (2014). His previous book with Barry Buzan is Non-Western International Relations Theory: Perspectives on and Beyond Asia (2010). He is the recipient of the 2015 Distinguished Scholar Award from ISA's Global South Caucus and the 2018 International Organization Section award.

Barry Buzan is Emeritus Professor in the London School of Economics and Political Science Department of International Relations, Honorary Professor at Copenhagen, Jilin, and China Foreign Affairs Universities, and a Fellow of the British Academy. His recent books include Global International Society, with Laust Schouenborg (Cambridge, 2018), and The Global Transformation, with George Lawson, (Cambridge, 2015) which won the 2017 Francesco Guicciardini Prize for Best Book in Historical International Relations.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1108480179
• ISBN 13: 9781108480178
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 392