The Idea of Civilization and the Making of the Global Order

Andrew Linklater, Linklater, Andrew

• Publisher: Bristol University Press
• Year: 2020
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781529213881
• Topic: Política y relaciones internacionales
• Subtopic: Globalización

The idea of civilization recurs frequently in reflections on international politics. However, International Relations academic writings on civilization have failed to acknowledge the major 20th-century analysis that examined the processes through which Europeans came to regard themselves as uniquely civilized – Norbert Elias's On the Process of Civilization.

This book provides a comprehensive exploration of the significance of Elias's reflections on civilization for International Relations. It explains the working principles of an Eliasian, or process-sociological, approach to civilization and the global order and demonstrates how the interdependencies between state-formation, colonialism and an emergent international society shaped the European 'civilizing process'.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Preface and Acknowledgements
• Introduction: A Process-Sociological Approach to Understanding Civilization
• 1 The Return of Discourses of Civilization and Barbarism
• 2 Elias’s Explanation of the European Civilizing Process
• 3 The Nation-State, War and Human Equality
• 4 The Classical European ‘Standard of Civilization’
• 5 Civilization, Diplomacy and the Enlargement of International Society
• 6 Standards of Civilization in the Post-European Global Order
• 7 Civilizing Processes at the Level of Humanity as a Whole
• Summary and Conclusions
• Notes
• References
• Index