This series delves into the complexities of global affairs, transcending traditional disciplinary boundaries to offer novel perspectives on international relations, law, and ethics. Each volume features a transdisciplinary approach, integrating insights from history, sociology, and political theory. The collection aims to provide profound analyses and foster discourse on pressing political concerns shaping our interconnected world. It appeals to readers seeking comprehensive and innovative insights into international dynamics.
Offers a new framework for understanding the relationship between cultural diversity and international order. Drawing from critical contributions within international relations (IR) and other reconceptualizations of cultures from across the social sciences, it includes contributions from IR scholars, historians, anthropologists, political theorists and sociologists.
Spruyt explains how collective belief systems influenced the political order in three non-European societies c.1500-1900, and the way in which these polities engaged the Western colonial empires. The inter-disciplinary approach of this book will appeal to students and scholars of international relations, historical sociology and global history.
Critically evaluates how international relations theories have conceived culture, and advances a new account of cultural diversity and international order.