Humiliation in International Relations: A Pathology of Contemporary International Systems

ISBN-13: 9781782256199 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 184 str.

Bertrand Badie

Opis

In international relations (IR), humiliation is currently commonplace. Denying states' status and stigmatising their practices (or even culture) are common occurrences in modern diplomacy. After the well known and very selective European 'concert of powers', many kinds of club diplomacy have been-and continue to be-substituted for an attempted inclusive multilateralism. G7, G8, G20, but also P5 and many 'contact groups' are regarded as ruling institutions which have the power to exclude and marginalize. Today, these humiliations are at the core of the system. They reveal the system's limits and lack of capacity while also posing a real threat to the power of the international order which is being eroded by the use of humiliation, fuelled by a colonial past, a failed decolonization, a mistaken vision of globalization, and a very perilous post-bipolar reconstruction. Although this book primarily takes a social psychology approach to IR, it also promotes another approach by investigating the international system from a French sociological tradition, mainly inspired by Emile Durkheim. This book is translated from Le Temps des Humili s. Pathologie des relations internationales (Paris, Odile Jacob, 2014). (Series: French Studies in International Law) Subject: Public International Law, Comparative Law, French Studies]