International Order in Diversity - War, Trade and Rule in the Indian Ocean

Informationen zum Autor Andrew Phillips is an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Research Award Fellow and Senior Lecturer in International Relations and Strategy in the School of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Queensland. Klappentext This book explains how a diverse Indian Ocean international system arose and endured during Europe's crucial opening stages of imperial expansion. Zusammenfassung International relations scholars typically expect political communities to resemble one another the more they interact. This book examines how Portuguese explorers! rapacious Dutch and English trading companies! and mighty Islamic empires like the Mughals all interacted and co-existed in the Indian Ocean during the first phases of European global expansion. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. The puzzle of durable diversity in international relations; 2. The initial growth of diversity, 1500-1600; 3. The expansion of diversity and competition under heteronomy, 1600-50; 4. The stabilization of diversity, 1600-1750; 5. Reconfiguring diversity in the age of empire, 1750-1900; Conclusion: order in diversity.

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• Authors: Andrew Phillips, Andrew (University of Queensland) Phillips, Andrew (University of Queensland) Sharma Phillips, Andrew Sharman Phillips, J C Sharman, J. C. Sharman, J. C. (Griffith University Sharman
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.04.2015
• EAN: 9781107446823
• ISBN: 978-1-107-44682-3
• No. of pages: 271
• Series: Cambridge Studies in International Relations; Cambridge Studies in Internati; Cambridge Studies in Internati; Cambridge Studies in International Relations
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education