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Age of Enlightenment
Agency (sociology)
Alexander Wendt
Ancien Régime
Aristocracy
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Authoritarianism
Bourgeoisie
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Columbia University
Constitutional monarchy
Counter-revolutionary
Defection
Democracy
Despotism
Enlightened absolutism
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Foreign policy
Foreign policy of the United States
Free trade
French Revolutionary Wars
Governance
Government
Grand strategy
Great power
Hegemony
Ideology
Institution
Intellectual
International law
International organization
International relations
Legitimacy (political)
Liberalism
Marc Trachtenberg
Mercantilism
Modernity
Monarchy
Montesquieu
Nation state
National interest
Nationalism
Neorealism (international relations)
Nobility
Parlement
Political culture
Political economy
Political philosophy
Politics
Popular sovereignty
Power politics
Princeton University Press
Public sphere
Realpolitik
Regime
Republic
Republicanism
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Rule of law
Ruler
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Social order
Social transformation
Sovereign state
Sovereignty
State of nature
Theda Skocpol
Treaty
University of California Press
War
Warfare
Wealth
Westphalian sovereignty
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- ISBN 9780691146706
- Weight: 369g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 10 Jan 2010
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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This book examines the causes and consequences of a major transformation in both domestic and international politics: the shift from dynastically legitimated monarchical sovereignty to popularly legitimated national sovereignty. It analyzes the impact of Enlightenment discourse on politics in eighteenth-century Europe and the United States, showing how that discourse facilitated new authority struggles in Old Regime Europe, shaped the American and French Revolutions, and influenced the relationships between the revolutionary regimes and the international system. The interaction between traditional and democratic ideas of legitimacy transformed the international system by the early nineteenth century, when people began to take for granted the desirability of equality, individual rights, and restraint of power. Using an interpretive, historically sensitive approach to international relations, the author considers the complex interplay between elite discourses about political legitimacy and strategic power struggles within and among states. She shows how culture, power, and interests interacted to produce a crucial yet poorly understood case of international change.
The book not only shows the limits of liberal and realist theories of international relations, but also demonstrates how aspects of these theories can be integrated with insights derived from a constructivist perspective that takes culture and legitimacy seriously. The author finds that cultural contests over the terms of political legitimacy constitute one of the central mechanisms by which the character of sovereignty is transformed in the international system--a conclusion as true today as it was in the eighteenth century.
Mlada Bukovansky is Assistant Professor of Government at Smith College.
