Andrew Phillips

War, Religion and Empire (eBook, PDF)

The Transformation of International Orders

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Produktbeschreibung

What are international orders, how are they destroyed, and how can they be defended in the face of violent challenges? Advancing an innovative realist-constructivist account of international order, Andrew Phillips addresses each of these questions in War, Religion and Empire. Phillips argues that international orders rely equally on shared visions of the good and accepted practices of organized violence to cultivate cooperation and manage conflict between political communities. Considering medieval Christendom's collapse and the East Asian Sinosphere's destruction as primary cases, he further argues that international orders are destroyed as a result of legitimation crises punctuated by the disintegration of prevailing social imaginaries, the break-up of empires, and the rise of disruptive military innovations. He concludes by considering contemporary threats to world order, and the responses that must be taken in the coming decades if a broadly liberal international order is to survive.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511922626
• Artikelnr.: 38203411

Autorenporträt

As a dynamic executive leader with extensive experience in the contemporary management of people & projects, Andrew demonstrates an ability to consistently deliver outstanding value & profitable growth for both corporate & Government organisations. With a background in business consulting, spanning 30 years, Andrew is a senior sales professional, business analyst & project manager with an impressive track record delivering value propositions & change agendas. Honest, outcome-orientated & intensely passionate about providing constructive support to this team, Andrew provides inspirational leadership by setting a clear vision & driving a culture of excellence. With an innate ability to identify and diagnose business technology problems, create scalable & profitable solutions for his clients, Andrew has earned a reputation as a trusted advisor & an integral part of their overall business strategy. Widely recognised as a thought leader, Andrew has provided strategic guidance on a range of mission critical situations, varying from siege situations to tier one systems integration. With an impeccable background consulting with leading IT organisations, including Unisys, Nortel, Meta Group, Getronics, Dimension Data and Readify - a Telstra company, Andrew is recognised a leader in his field and one of the most sought after sales professionals in Australia. In his current role at Unisys, a global IT company specialising in industry-focused solutions integrated with leading-edge security for government, financial services & commercial markets, Andrew assists his clients to become more competitive by leveraging technology to enhance their unique differentiators. With specialist skills in cost control, security, cloud technology & call centres, Andrew offers his clients end-to-end solutions to their system integration challenges & prides himself on his ability to communicate effectively with his customers, to understand their problems & act as an advocate on their behalf.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. What are international orders?
2. Accounting for the transformation of international orders
3. The origins, constitution and decay of Latin Christendom
4. The collapse of Latin Christendom
5. Anarchy without society: Europe after Christendom and before sovereignty
6. The origins, constitution and decay of the sinosphere
7. Heavenly kingdom, imperial nemesis: barbarians, martyrs and the collapse of the sinosphere
8. Into the abyss: civilization, barbarism and the end of the sinosphere
9. The great disorder and the birth of the East Asian sovereign state system
10. The Jihadist terrorist challenge to the global state system
Conclusion.

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Introduction; 1. What are international orders?; 2. Accounting for the transformation of international orders; 3. The origins, constitution and decay of Latin Christendom; 4. The collapse of Latin Christendom; 5. Anarchy without society: Europe after Christendom and before sovereignty; 6. The origins, constitution and decay of the sinosphere; 7. Heavenly kingdom, imperial nemesis: barbarians, martyrs and the collapse of the sinosphere; 8. Into the abyss: civilization, barbarism and the end of the sinosphere; 9. The great disorder and the birth of the East Asian sovereign state system; 10. The Jihadist terrorist challenge to the global state system; Conclusion.

Rezensionen

'This extraordinary conceptual and historical analysis of changes in international orders analyzes the threats that Islamist radicalism and transnational terrorism pose for the present American-centered order through two historical lenses: the collapse of Latin Christendom under the impact of the Reformation and a revolution in war fighting, and the liquidation of the Sinosphere brought about by dynastic decay, millenarian rebellions, and the encroachment of Western imperial expansion. Phillips is theoretically bold and incisive and succeeds in escaping the Western-centric perspective that typifies most contemporary international relations theory. If the second-hands of history, our daily news and pundits, are condemned to tell the wrong time, here is a book for the ages that comes as close to getting things right as is humanly possible. This is a triumph of superior scholarship.' Peter J. Katzenstein, Cornell University