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INTERNATIONAL SYSTEMS IN WORLD HISTORY
REMAKING THE STUDY OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS |
| By: |
Barry Buzan, Richard Little |
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| ISBN 10: |
0198780656 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780198780656 |
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| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
13 April, 2000 |
| Pages: |
472 |
| Description: |
This book tells the story of humanity's evolution from a scattering of hunter-gatherer bands to today's integrated global international political economy. It outlines the concept of international systems as a useful framework for all those interested in a big picture understanding of the evolution of human society from earliest times to the present. |
| Synopsis: |
This book tells the 60,000 year story of how humankind evolved from a scattering of hunter-gatherer bands to todays highly integrated global international political economy. It traces the evolution of ever-wider economic, societal and military-political international systems, and the interplay between these systems and the tribes, city states, empires, and modern states into which humans have organised themselves. Buzan and Little marry a wide range of mainstream International Relations theories to a world historical perspective. They mount a stinging attack on International Relations as a discipline, arguing that its Eurocentrism, historical narrowness, and theoretical fragmentation have reduced almost to nothing both its cross-disclipinary influence and its ability to think coherently about either the past or the future. Seeking to emulate and challenge the cross-disciplinary influence of the world systems model, the book recasts the study of International Relations into a macro-historical perspective, shows how its core concepts work across time, and sets out a new theoretical agenda and a new intellectual role for the discipline. |
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line illustrations and maps |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Oxford University Press |
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