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Informationen zum Autor Andrew Phillips is a Research Fellow in the Department of International Relations at the Australian National University. His research interests focus on the evolution of the global state system and the challenges that new security threats pose to the contemporary world order. Klappentext Examines how war, religion and imperialism have transformed world politics from the Reformation to the 'war on terror'. Zusammenfassung What are international orders! how are they destroyed! and how can they be defended in the face of violent challenges? Andrew Phillips examines the ways in which war! religious fundamentalism! and the collapse of empires have transformed international orders from the Reformation to the 'war on terror'. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. What are international orders?; 2. Accounting for the transformation of international orders; 3. The origins, constitution and decay of Latin Christendom; 4. The collapse of Latin Christendom; 5. Anarchy without society: Europe after Christendom and before sovereignty; 6. The origins, constitution and decay of the sinosphere; 7. Heavenly kingdom, imperial nemesis: barbarians, martyrs and the collapse of the sinosphere; 8. Into the abyss: civilization, barbarism and the end of the sinosphere; 9. The great disorder and the birth of the East Asian sovereign state system; 10. The Jihadist terrorist challenge to the global state system; Conclusion.
