The Closure of the International System: How Institutions Create Political Equalities and Hierarchies

ISBN-13: 9781108482257 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 336 str.

Lora Anne Viola

Opis

Explains how actors control access to international resources, creating a stratified international system of political equals and unequals.

Recenzje

'The book develops a closure theory to explain why the rules and institutions of the international system exhibit this mix of equality and inequality of rights and privileges.' G. John Ikenberry, Foreign Affairs

Spis treści

1. False promises of universalism: the interdependent logics of equality and inequality in the international system; 2. The closure thesis: social closure, club dynamics, and stratification in the international system; 3. 'The master institution': diplomacy, practices of closure, and the emergence of an international system in early modern Europe; 4. 'Dwarves and giants': international law, the monopolization of sovereign rights, and stratification in the international system; 5. International organizations: between sovereign equality and the institutionalization of inequality; 6. What remains of the promise of equality?; Index.