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The Idea of Civilization and the Making of the Global Order /

The idea of civilization recurs frequently in reflections on international politics. However, International Relations academic writings on civilization have failed to acknowledge the major 20th-century analysis that examined the processes through which Europeans came to regard themselves as uniquely...

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Autor principal: Linklater, Andrew (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol, UK : Bristol University Press, 2021.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Introduction : A process-sociological approach to understanding civilization
  • 1. The return of discourses of civilization and barbarism
  • 2. Elias's explanation of the European civilizing process
  • 3. The nation-state, war and human equality
  • 4. The classical European "standard of civilization"
  • 5. Civilization, diplomacy and the enlargement of international society
  • 6. Standards of civilization in the post-European global order
  • 7. Civilizing processes at the level of humanity as a whole
  • Summary and conclusions.