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Beyond the Anarchical Society
Edward Keene argues that the conventional idea of an 'anarchical society' of equal and independent sovereign states is an inadequate description of order in modern world politics. International political and legal order has always been dedicated to two distinct goals: to try to promote the toleration of different ways of life, while advocating the adoption of one specific way, that it labels 'civilization'. The nineteenth-century solution to this contradiction was to restrict the promotion of civilization to the world beyond Europe. That discriminatory way of thinking has now broken down, with the result that a single, global order is supposed to apply to everyone, but opinion is still very much divided as to what the ultimate purpose of this global order should be, and how its political and legal structure should be organised.
We Never Knew It
Author Edward F. Keene was born in 1928, just in time to welcome the Great Depression. His life experiences encompass drastic change in the world and remarkable personal circumstances as well. Although this book is an autobiography,it reads like a novel with romance and heartbreak, success and failure, murder and closure. Everything written in this book is true and happened as it is described. Nothing is added or changed. In We Never Knew It, Keene recalls his childhood and young adulthood, describing his efforts to overcome a tragedy that occurred in his early teens and make this world a better place to live in. He paints a vivid picture of life in the thirties and forties, with recollections that feature World War II and its end from the perspective of a boy on the home front. In 1946, although the war was over, the eighteen-year-old Keene found himself eligible for the still-active draft. He elected to enlist in the navy for two years, after which he went to college and met the woman he would marry.
International Political Thought
This volume offers an accessible and wide-ranging introduction to the history of international political thought. Taking as its starting-point the various concepts people have used to think about differences between political communities, the book explores changing perceptions of international politics from antiquity to the twentieth century. As well as discussing well-known themes such as relations between independent sovereign states and the tension between raison d'état and a universal code of natural law, it also examines less familiar ideas which have influenced the development of international political thought such as the distinction between civilization, national culture and barbari...
The Oxford Handbook of History and International Relations
Historical approaches to the study of world politics have always been a major part of the academic discipline of International Relations, and there has recently been a resurgence of scholarly interest in this area. This Oxford Handbook examines the past and present of the intersection between history and IR, and looks to the future by laying out new questions and directions for research. Seeking to transcend well-worn disciplinary debates between historians and IR scholars, the Handbook asks authors from both fields to engage with the central themes of 'modernity' and 'granularity'. Modernity is one of the basic organising categories of speculation about continuity and discontinuity in the h...
Social Closure and International Society
Laying the foundations of a theory of ‘international social closure’ this book examines how actors compete for a seat at the table in the management of international society and how that competition stratifies the international domain. In a broad historical survey from the ‘Family of Civilised Nations’, through the Great Powers’ club, to the G7 and G20 today, Naylor investigates the politics of membership in the exclusive clubs that manage international society and ensure its survival, providing us with a new way to think about how status competition has changed over time and what this means for international politics today. With its sociologically grounded theory, this book advanc...
Property, Piracy and Punishment: Hugo Grotius on War and Booty in De iure praedae
Sixteen essays discuss De iure praedae – Hugo Grotius’s 1604-1605 commentary on booty –, its sources, circumstances and consequences, and explore how Grotius the humanist, the theologian, the jurist and the politician concur in this his first exercise in natural law and rights.
