Empires and the Sovereign State Order: A Revisionist History

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    Abstract

    For all the sustained discussion about the inclusion of bodies other than states
    (Ruggie 1993, 1998; Ferguson and Mansbach 1996, 2007; Nancy 2007; Walker
    1993, 2010) the object of analysis of international politics, the ‘IR system
    as such’, remains largely focused (as the name suggests) upon the totality of
    relations between independent sovereign states. So the ‘question of empires’ and
    international relations can be formulated as: what role might empires have in the
    context of international order that has been widely understood to comprise first
    and foremost autonomous states? Hence my title.
    Is it, for example, adequate to imagine a world of states with occasional
    interference from one or more empires to cover anomalies or exceptions where
    standard models of international order do not seem to work? That still leaves the
    idea of empires on the sidelines, an intrusion, a sticking plaster for the occasional
    lesions in the model of the international system ‘as such’. It does not think through
    the implications of their historical presence: empires’ role in the past, present and
    possible future of the international system or systems. The purpose of this chapter
    is to reconsider how empires, with their proclivity for expanding their (version of) order, have frequently
    been the biggest figures in the formation of international relations. One or more
    empires has had that role, at the given time, in relation to whatever may be called
    at the time ‘international order’.
    OriginalsprogEngelsk
    TitelEmpire and International Order
    RedaktørerNoel Parker
    Antal sider22
    UdgivelsesstedAldershot
    ForlagAshgate
    Publikationsdatoapr. 2013
    Sider69-91
    Kapitel3
    ISBN (Trykt)9780754679936
    StatusUdgivet - apr. 2013

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