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The Cultural Construction of International Relations. The Invention of the State of Nature.
Jahn Beate
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Hardback. The discipline of international relations deals with the problem of culture by defining world politics as a state of nature, yet it ignores the fact that the concept of the state is itself a cultural product. This book uncovers the history of this concept. Num Pages: 200 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFCX; JPA; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 383.
The discipline of international relations deals with the problem of culture by defining world politics as a state of nature, yet it ignores the fact that the concept of the state is itself a cultural product. This book uncovers the history of this idea, revealing its origins in the European conquest of America, its crucial role in the emergence of the Enlightenment world view, and its continuing negative consequences for our attempts to understand world politics.
The discipline of international relations deals with the problem of culture by defining world politics as a state of nature, yet it ignores the fact that the concept of the state is itself a cultural product. This book uncovers the history of this idea, revealing its origins in the European conquest of America, its crucial role in the emergence of the Enlightenment world view, and its continuing negative consequences for our attempts to understand world politics.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Number of Pages
182
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780333802571
SKU
V9780333802571
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About Jahn Beate
Beate Jahn is Lecturer in International Relations, University of Sussex.
Reviews for The Cultural Construction of International Relations. The Invention of the State of Nature.
...she produces a straightforward deconstruction of the nature/culture dichotomy and some of its uses in IR. American Political Science Review