The Making of Global International Relations

Origins and Evolution of IR at its Centenary

Amitav Acharya, Barry Buzan

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN: 9781108480178
• eBook ISBN: 9781108571968
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: International Relations
• Index: Politics & International Relations

This book presents a challenge to the discipline of international relations (IR) to rethink itself, in the light of both its own modern origins, and the two centuries of world history that have shaped it. By tracking the development of thinking about IR, and the practice of world politics, this book shows how they relate to each other across five time periods from nineteenth-century colonialism, through two world wars, the Cold War and decolonization, to twenty-first-century globalization. It gives equal weight to both the neglected voices and histories of the Global South, and the traditionally dominant perspectives of the West, showing how they have moved from nearly complete separation to the beginnings of significant integration. The authors argue that IR needs to continue this globalizing movement if it is to cope with the rapidly emerging post-Western world order, with its more diffuse distribution of wealth, power and cultural authority.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title
• Title page
• Copyright information
• Table of contents
• List of tables
• Acknowledgements
• List of abbreviations
• Introduction
• 1 The World up to 1919: The Making of Modern International Relations
• 2 International Relations up to 1919: Laying the Foundations
• 3 The World 1919–1945: Still Version 1.0 Global International Society
• 4 International Relations 1919–1945: The First Founding of the Discipline
• 5 The World after 1945: The Era of the Cold War and Decolonisation
• 6 International Relations 1945–1989: The Second Founding of the Discipline
• 7 The World after 1989: ‘Unipolarity’, Globalisation and the Rise of the Rest
• 8 International Relations after 1989
• 9 The Post-Western World Order: Deep Pluralism
• 10 Towards Global International Relations
• References
• Index