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'.
ISBN: | 9781529213911 |
Publication date: | 18th November 2020 |
Author: | Andrew (Aberystwyth University) Linklater |
Publisher: | Bristol University Press |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 340 pages |
Series: | Bristol Studies in International Theory |
Genres: |
Geopolitics Social theory |