Becoming International

"The first global intellectual history of the rise and spread of the modern international system. Providing a new understanding of that system and its contemporary functions, this book will be of interest to advanced students and scholars of international relations, international law, intellectual and global history, and historical sociology"--

List of contents

1. Making sense of the international; 2. Dividing the world; 3. Empire and independence c.1776--c.1825; 4. Empire and self-determination c. 1820-c.1919; 5. The empire of the international; 6. From the international to the global and beyond?.

About the author

Jens Bartelson is Professor of Political Science at Lund University. He is the author of War in International Thought (Cambridge University Press, 2017), Visions of World Community (Cambridge University Press, 2009), The Critique of the State (Cambridge University Press, 2001) and A Genealogy of Sovereignty (Cambridge University Press, 1995), as well as numerous articles in leading journals in international relations, international law, political theory, and sociology.

Summary

The first global intellectual history of the rise and spread of the modern international system. Providing a new understanding of that system and its contemporary functions, this book will be of interest to advanced students and scholars of international relations, international law, intellectual and global history, and historical sociology.

Foreword

Provides a new historical account of the rise and spread of the modern international system.

Product details

• Authors: Jens Bartelson, Jens (Lunds Universitet Bartelson, Bartelson Jens
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2023
• EAN: 9781009400749
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0940074-9
• No. of pages: 300
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; World, History of Ideas, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, Nationalism, International Relations, International Law, General and world history, Academic style, Academism, Academicism