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OverviewBarry Buzan proposes a new approach to making International Relations a truly global discipline that transcends both Eurocentrism and comparative civilisations. He narrates the story of humankind as a whole across three eras, using its material conditions and social structures to show how global society has evolved. Deploying the English School's idea of primary institutions and setting their story across three domains - interpolity, transnational and interhuman - this book conveys a living historical sense of the human story whilst avoiding the overabstraction of many social science grand theories. Buzan sharpens the familiar story of three main eras in human history with the novel idea that these eras are separated by turbulent periods of transition. This device enables a radical retelling of how modernity emerged from the late 18th century. He shows how the concept of 'global society' can build bridges connecting International Relations, Global Historical Sociology and Global/World History. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Barry Buzan (London School of Economics and Political Science)Publisher: Cambridge University Press Imprint: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9781009372183ISBN 10: 1009372181 Pages: 400 Publication Date: 10 August 2023 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of Contents1. Introduction; Part I. Laying the Foundations for a Global Society: 2. Pre-prelude – the hunter-gatherer era; 3. Prelude – the era of conglomerate agrarian/pastoralist empires 2310BC to 1800AD; Part II. The Transition to Modernity and the Making of Global Society: 4. Material conditions; 5a. Social structure I – CAPE instructions carried forward into the transition; 5b. Social structure II – institutions new with the transition; 6. Where are we within the transition from CAPE to modernity; Part III. Deep Pluralism: More Transition or Modernity Proper?: 7. Material conditions; 8. Social structure; Part IV. Conclusions: 9. Conclusions.Reviews'A summing up of the entire emergence of inter-polity, inter-state and international relations by a master of his trade. Gives the reader something to think with, and, even more importantly, something to think on.' Iver B. Neumann, Director, The Fridtjof Nansen Institute, Norway 'This is the book that fans of English School have been waiting for, and only Barry Buzan could have delivered it. His tour de force Making Global Society: A Study of Humankind Across Three Eras helps the reader see both world history and IR theory with new eyes.' Ayse Zarakol, University of Cambridge 'With his usual incisive analytical aplomb, Barry Buzan's book constructs one of the grandest canvases ever produced for rethinking IR and IPE through effecting a brilliant synthesis of English School theory with Global Historical Sociology/World History and Global IR. By creating a 'big picture' grand theory of the long run rise of global society, this book builds on but advances much further his pioneering agenda-setting book (with Richard Little), International Systems in World History.' John M. Hobson, University of Sheffield, UK Author InformationBarry Buzan is Emeritus Professor in the Department of International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a Fellow of the British Academy. He has authored, co-authored and edited over thirty books and 170 chapters and articles including Re-imagining International Relations (with Amitav Acharya, 2021) and The Making of Global International Relations (with Amitav Acharya, 2019). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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