War, religion and empire : the transformation of international orders / Andrew Phillips.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Phillips, Andrew, 1977- author.

Series:

Cambridge studies in international relations ; 117.

Cambridge studies in international relations ; 117

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion and international relations.

Church history--Middle Ages, 600-1500.

Church history.

Christianity and politics--History--Middle Ages, 600-1500.

Christianity and politics.

Islam and politics.

International relations.

Terrorism--Religious aspects.

Terrorism.

Religion and politics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 364 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

War, Religion & Empire

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-511-86210-5

1-107-21386-X

1-282-94845-8

9786612948459

0-511-93169-7

0-511-92784-3

0-511-93304-5

0-511-92530-1

0-511-76110-4

0-511-93035-6

OCLC:

694342151