The World Imagined: Collective Beliefs and Political Order in the Sinocentric, Islamic and Southeast Asian International Societies

ISBN-13: 9781108491211 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 410 str.

Hendrik Spruyt

Opis

Spruyt takes an inter-disciplinary approach to explain how collective belief systems organized three non-European societies c.1500–1900, and how these polities engaged the European colonial powers.

Recenzje

'… this book offers a distinctive perspective on the variety of historical international orders. It challenges conventional modernist accounts of the 'expansion' of the Western 'international society' and the 'formation' of the modern international system.' Zheng Chen , China International Strategy Review

Spis treści

Part I. Beyond the Westphalian Gaze: 1. Introduction; 2. The Historical-Sociological Approach to Understanding Order in International Systems; 3. Collective Beliefs and Visions of Order; Part II. The East Asian Sino-Centric Order: 4. Gathering All Under Heaven: East Asian Collective Beliefs and International Society; 5. The East Asian Inter-State Society and the Westphalian System; Part III. The Islamic Cultural-Historical Community: 6. Lords of the Auspicious Conjunction: The Ottoman, Safavid and Mughal Empires and the Islamic Ecumene; 7. Collective Imagination and the Conduct of Inter-Polity Relations; Part IV. Collective Imagination among the Polities of Southeast Asia: 8. The Galactic Polities of Southeast Asia; 9. Inter-State Relations and the Encounter with the Colonial Powers; 10. Conclusion: Viewing the World in One's own Image.