Multiplicity
A New Common Ground for International Relations?
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About this book
This volume takes up the idea of 'multiplicity' as a new common ground for international theory, bringing together 10 scholars to reflect on the implications of societal multiplicity for areas as diverse as nationalism, ecology, architecture, monetary systems, cosmology and the history of political ideas.
International relations (IR), it is often said, has contributed no big ideas to the interdisciplinary conversation of the social sciences and humanities. Yet this is an unnecessary silence, for IR uniquely addresses a fundamental fact about the human world: its division into a multiplicity of interacting social formations. This feature is full of consequences for the very nature of societies and for social phenomena of all kinds. And in recent years a research programme has emerged within IR to theorise these 'consequences of multiplicity' and to trace how the effects of the international dimension extend into other fields of social life. This book is a powerful indication of the contribution that IR may yet make to the human disciplines.
The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Globalizations.
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Index
- Abbott, Andrew 156
- actors 9, 11, 13, 15, 24, 26, 105, 114, 161, 168–172, 174
- Adorno, T. W. 105
- advanced revolutions 4–5, 82, 86, 90
- Agnew, John 157
- Allan, Bentley 175
- anarchy 2–3, 5–6, 8–16, 18–19, 46, 52, 103–106, 136–137, 143–144, 147, 167–168
- logic of 9–11, 13, 15, 19
- Anderson, Perry 48
- Anthropocene 3, 24, 28, 33
- architecture 2, 4, 56–59, 62–63, 65–66, 68, 70–72, 74–77
- armies 6, 11, 13–16, 109, 159
- Art History Museum, Vienna 60
- assemblages 26–27, 157
- Atlantic slave trade 121, 126–127
- Austin, J. 57–58, 75
- Austro-Hungarian Empire 63, 159–160
- autonomy 43, 103–104, 130
- backwardness 68, 72, 76, 82, 89, 95, 145
- bargaining 11, 15–16
- continuation of 11
- Barkawi, Tarak 153
- Bartelsen, J. 57
- Bennett, Jane 26
- Berki, R. N. 123–...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Series Page
- Citation Information
- Contributor
- Introduction: Multiplicity: a new common ground for international theory?
- Conflict and the separateness of peoples: investigating the relationship between multiplicity, inequality and war
- 2 Nature and the international: towards a materialist understanding of societal multiplicity
- Deciphering the modern Janus: societal multiplicity and nation-formation
- 4 An international politics of Czech architecture; or, reviving the international in international political sociology
- Trotsky’s error: multiplicity and the secret origins of revolutionary Marxism
- Understanding intervention through multiplicity: protection politics in South Sudan
- Hierarchical multiplicity in the international monetary system: from the slave trade to the Franc CFA in West Africa
- Multiplicity: anarchy in the mirror of sociology
- Whither IR? Multiplicity, relations, and the paradox of International Relations
- Multiplicity expanded: IR theories, multiplicity, and the potential of trans-disciplinary dialogue
- Index