Table Of ContentAn outstanding volume of non-Eurocentric historical-sociological essays that
advances an extremely powerful critique of the English School’s commitment
towhatIcallthe‘Eurocentric bigbangtheoryofworld politics’–thatthebig
bang of modernity explodedautonomously within Europe and that thereafter
European ‘civilization’ expanded outwards in a non-problematic way to
remake the world in its own image – by deploying the antidote of bringing
Eastern agency back into the story of the long-term development of world
politics.
John M. Hobson, Professor of Politics and International Relations,
University of Sheffield, UK
Perhaps ‘1648 and all that’ fundamentally distorts our understanding of the
history of international relations. By rediscovering early modern and non-
western international orders, this expert team sets out a challenge to IR
scholarship. It is especially welcome and important in making sense of the
profound changes currently underway.
Ian Clark, E. H. Carr Professor of International Politics,
Aberystwyth University
Maps centered on the South Pole are amusing, but international relations
books centered on the non-Western world are essential. From its origins,
international relations theory has been a Western enterprise with other parts
of the world largely ignored or analyzed through parochial and often inap-
propriate conceptions. Suzuki, Zhang, Quirk and their collaborators turn the
tablesandofferperspectivesonEuropefromEastAsia,theMiddleEast,Africa
and Latin America, and generally at a time when European interlopers were
unable to impose their preferences on these cultures. They effectively demon-
strate the importance of non-Western cultures and their ideas in shaping
global history
Richard Ned Lebow, Professor of International Political Theory,
King’s College London, UK
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International Orders in the
Early Modern World
ThisbookexaminesthehistoricalinteractionsoftheWestandthenon-Western
world, and investigates whether or not the exclusive adoption of Western-
oriented ‘internationalnorms’istheprerequisite for theconstruction ofstable
and enduring international orders.
This book sets out to challenge the Eurocentric foundations of modern
International Relations scholarship by examining international relations in
the early modern era, when European primacy had yet to develop in many
parts of the globe. Through a series of regional case studies on East Asia, the
Middle East, Africa, Latin America, and Russiawritten by leading specialists
of their field, this book explores various historical patterns of cross-cultural
exchange and civilizational encounters. The chapters of this book document
and analyse a series of regional international orders that were primarily
defined by local interests, agendas and institutions, with European interlopers
often playing a secondary role. These perspectives emphasize the central role
ofnon-Europeanagencyinshapingglobalhistory,andstandinstarkcontrast
toconventionalnarrativesrevolvingaroundthe‘RiseoftheWest’,whichtend
to be based upon a stylized contrast between a dynamic ‘West’ and a passive
and static ‘East’.
Focusing on a crucial period of global history that has been neglected in
the field of International Relations, International Orders in the Early Modern
World will be of interest to students and scholars of international relations,
international relations theory, international history, early modern history and
sociology.
Shogo Suzuki is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Politics at the
University of Manchester, UK.
Yongjin Zhang is Professor of International Politics at the University of
Bristol, UK.
Joel Quirk is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Political Studies at the
University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.
The New International Relations
Edited by Richard Little, University of Bristol, Iver B. Neumann, Norwegian
InstituteofInternationalAffairs(NUPI),NorwayandJuttaWeldes,University
of Bristol.
The field of international relations has changed dramatically in recent
years. This new series will cover the major issues that have emerged and
reflect the latest academic thinking in this particular dynamic area.
International Law, Rights and Realism in International Relations
Politics and International Political Economy
Developments in Eastern Europe The continuing storyof a death
and the CIS foretold
Rein Mullerson Stefano Guzzini
The Logic of Internationalism International Relations, Political
Coercion and accommodation Theory and the Problem of Order
Kjell Goldmann Beyondinternationalrelationstheory?
N.J. Rengger
Russia and the Idea of Europe
Astudyinidentityandinternational War, Peace and World Orders in
relations European History
Iver B. Neumann Edited by Anja V. Hartmann and
Beatrice Heuser
The Future of International
Relations European Integration and National
Masters in the making? Identity
Edited by Iver B. Neumann and The challenge of the Nordic states
Ole Wæver EditedbyLeneHansenandOleWæver
Constructing the World Polity Shadow Globalization, Ethnic
Essays on international Conflicts and New Wars
institutionalization Apoliticaleconomyofintra-statewar
John Gerard Ruggie Dietrich Jung
Contemporary Security Analysis and Communitarian International
Copenhagen Peace Research Relations
Edited by Stefano Guzzini and The epistemic foundations of
Dietrich Jung international relations
Emanuel Adler
Observing International Relations
Niklas Luhmann andworld politics Human Rights and World Trade
Edited by Mathias Albert and Hunger in international society
Lena Hilkermeier Ana Gonzalez-Pelaez
Does China Matter? A Reassessment Liberalism and War
Essays in memory of Gerald Segal The victors and the vanquished
Edited by Barry Buzan and Andrew Williams
Rosemary Foot
Constructivism and International
European Approaches to Relations
International Relations Theory Alexander Wendt and his critics
A house with many mansions Edited by Stefano Guzzini and
Jörg Friedrichs Anna Leander
The Post-Cold War International Security as Practice
System Discourse analysis and the
Strategies, institutions and Bosnian War
reflexivity Lene Hansen
Ewan Harrison
The Politics of Insecurity
States of Political Discourse Fear, migration and asylum
Words, regimes, seditions in the EU
Costas M. Constantinou Jef Huysmans
The Politics of Regional Identity State Sovereignty and Intervention
Meddling with the Mediterranean A discourse analysis of
Michelle Pace interventionary and
non-interventionary practices in
The Power of International Theory Kosovo and Algeria
Reforging the link to foreign policy- Helle Malmvig
making through scientific enquiry
Fred Chernoff Culture and Security
Symbolic power and the politics of
Africa and the North international security
Between globalization and Michael Williams
marginalization
Edited by Ulf Engel and Hegemony & History
Gorm Rye Olsen Adam Watson
Territorial Conflicts in World The Puzzle of Politics
Society Inquiries into the genesis and
Modern systems theory, transformation of international
international relations and relations
conflict studies Friedrich Kratochwil
Edited by Stephan Stetter
The Conduct of Inquiry in
Ontological Security in International International Relations
Relations Philosophyof science and its
Self-identity and the IR state implications for the study
Brent J. Steele of world politics
Patrick Thaddeus Jackson
The International Politics of Judicial
Intervention Arguing Global Governance
Creating a more just order Agency, lifeworld and shared
Andrea Birdsall reasoning
Edited by Corneliu Bjola and
Pragmatism in International Markus Kornprobst
Relations
Edited by Harry Bauer and Constructing Global Enemies
Elisabetta Brighi Hegemony and identity in
internationaldiscoursesonterrorism
Civilization and Empire and drug prohibition
China and Japan’s encounter with Eva Herschinger
European international society
Shogo Suzuki Alker and IR
Global studies in an interconnected
Transforming World Politics world
From empire to multiple worlds Edited by Renée Marlin-Bennett
Anna M. Agathangelou and
L.H.M. Ling Sovereignty between Politics and
Law
The Politics of Becoming European Tanja Aalberts
A studyof Polish and Baltic post-
Cold War security imaginaries International Relations and the First
Maria Mälksoo Great Debate
Edited by Brian Schmidt
Social Power in International
Politics China in the UN Security
Peter Van Ham Council Decision-making
on Iraq
International Relations and Identity Conflicting understandings,
A dialogical approach competing preferences
Xavier Guillaume Suzanne Xiao Yang
NATO’sSecurityDiscourseafterthe European Integration and
Cold War Postcolonial Sovereignty Games
Representing the West The EU overseas countries and
Andreas Behnke territories
Edited by Rebecca Adler-Nissen and
TheScandinavianInternationalSociety Ulrik Pram Gad
From Norden to the northern
dimension? Power, Realism and Constructivism
Laust Schouenborg Stefano Guzzini
Bourdieu in International Relations Justice, Order and Anarchy
Rethinking key concepts in IR The international political theoryof
Edited by Rebecca Adler-Nissen Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Alex Prichard
Making Sense, Making Worlds
Constructivism in social War in International Society
theory and international Lacy Pejcinovic
relations
Nicholas Greenwood Onuf The United States and Great Power
Responsibility in International
World of Our Making Society
Rules and rule in social Drones, rendition and invasion
theory and international Wali Aslam
relations
Nicholas Greenwood Onuf The Dao of World Politics
Towards a post-Westphalian,
Maritime Piracy and the worldist international relations
Construction of L.H.M. Ling
Global Governance
Edited by Michael J. Struett, International Orders in the Early
Jon D. Carlson and Modern World
Mark T. Nance Before the rise of the West
Edited by Shogo Suzuki, Yongjin
Zhang and Joel Quirk
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International Orders in the Early
Modern World
Before the rise of the West
Edited by Shogo Suzuki, Yongjin Zhang
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