Idea of Civilization and the Making of the Global Order
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- ISBN 9781529213911
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 18 Nov 2020
- Publisher: Bristol University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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 civilized – Norbert Elias’s On the Process of Civilization.
This book provides a comprehensive exploration of the significance of Elias’s reflections on civilization for International Relations. It explains the working principles of an Eliasian, or process-sociological, approach to civilization and the global order and demonstrates how the interdependencies between state-formation, colonialism and an emergent international society shaped the European 'civilizing process'.
