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Especially since the end of the Cold War, the concept of civilization has been frequently deployed by those who seek to describe and explain the world in which we live. The events of 11 September 2001, and the subsequent war on terror, have further elevated the concept's use in the discourse of politics and international relations. There has, for instance, been feverish speculation and increasingly heated rhetoric about struggles for civilization or a possible clash of civilizations, particularly between the West and the Islamic world. The term is used both to describe and to cast...

The term civilization comes with considerable baggage, dichotomizing people, cultures, and histories as civilized or not. While the idea of civilization has been deployed throughout history to justify all manner of interventions and sociopolitical engineering, few scholars have stopped to consider what the concept actually means. Here, Brett Bowden examines how the idea of civilization has informed our thinking about international relations over the course of ten centuries.

From the Crusades to the colonial era to the global war on terror, this sweeping volume exposes civilization as a...

Global Standards of Market Civilization brings together leading scholars, representing a range of political views, to investigate how global 'standards of market civilization' have emerged, their justification, and their political, economic and social impact.

Key chapters show how as the modern state system has evolved such standards have also developed, incorporating the capacity for social cooperation and self-government to which states must conform in order to fully participate as legitimate members in international society. This study analyzes their justification, and...