War, religion, and empire : the transformation of international orders

Phillips, Andrew 1977- (author.).

Summary: "What are international orders, how are they destroyed, and how can they be defended in the face of violent challenges? Advancing an innovative realist-constructivist account of international order, Andrew Phillips addresses each of these questions in War, Religion and Empire. Phillips argues that international orders rely equally on shared visions of the good and accepted practices of organized violence to cultivate cooperation and manage conflict between political communities. Considering medieval Christendom's collapse and the East Asian Sinosphere's destruction as primary cases, he further argues that international orders are destroyed as a result of legitimation crises punctuated by the disintegration of prevailing social imaginaries, the break-up of empires, and the rise of disruptive military innovations. He concludes by considering contemporary threats to world order, and the responses that must be taken in the coming decades if a broadly liberal international order is to survive"--

Record details

ISBN: 9780521191289
ISBN: 9780521122092
ISBN: 0521191289
ISBN: 0521122090
ISBN: 9780511933042
ISBN: 9780511761102
ISBN: 0511933045
ISBN: 0511761104
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xi, 364 pages).
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Publisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Copyright: �2011

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General Note:	CatMonthString:april.19 Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-346) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	What are international orders? -- Accounting for the transformation of international orders -- The origins, constitution and decay of Latin Christendom -- The collapse of Latin Christendom -- Anarchy without society: Europe after Christendom and before sovereignty -- The origins, constitution and decay of the Sinosphere -- Heavenly kingdom, imperial nemesis: barbarians, martyrs and the crisis of the Sinosphere -- Into the abyss: civilization, barbarism and the end of the Sinosphere -- The great disorder and the birth of the East Asian sovereign state system -- The jihadist terrorist challenge to the global state system.
Type of Computer File or Data Note:	Text (HTML), electronic book.
System Details Note:	Mode of access: Internet.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note:	Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff. Access restricted by subscription.
Issuing Body Note:	Made available online by EBSCO.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.