Synopses & Reviews
This book is a systematic investigation of the origins and nature of the international society of today. The work of a study group of distinguished scholars, it examines comprehensively the expansion of the international society of European states across the rest of the globe, and its subsequent transformation from a society fashioned in Europe and dominated by Europeans into today's global international society of nearly two hundred states, the great majority of which are not European.
The first section describes the predominance of the European system in a floodtide of expansion from the sixteenth century onwards, which united the whole world for the first time in a single economic, strategic, and political unit. The process whereby non-European states came to take their place as members of the same society, accepting its rules and institutions, is the subject of the second part; and the third section examines the repudiation of European, Russian, and American domination by states and peoples of the Third World and the consequent movement away from a system based on European hegemony. The last part is concerning with the new international order that has emerged from the ebb tide of European dominance, and focuses on a central question. Has the geographical expansion of international society led to a contradiction of the consensus about common interests, rules, and institutions on which an international society proper must rest? Or can we say that the old European system has been modified and developed in such a way that a new, genuinely universal, and non-hegemonial structure for international relations has taken root?
A new foreword by Andrew Hurrell examines the impact of this seminal work and sets its continued contribution in context.
About the Author
Hedley Bull,
Formerly Montague Burton Professor of International Relations, The University of Oxford,Adam Watson,
Formerly Visiting Professor, University of VirginiaHedley Bull was Montague Burton Professor of International Relations at Oxford University.
Adam Watson was Visiting Professor at the Center for Advanced Studies, University of Virginia, and formerly of the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
Table of Contents
Part 1: European International Society and the Outside World 1. European International Society and its Expansion, Adam Watson
2. The Military Factor in European Expansion, Michael Howard
3. Europe in the World Economy, Patrick O'Brien
4. Russia and the European States System, Adam Watson
5. Spain and the Indies, Michael Donelan
6. British and Russian Relations with Asian Governments in the Nineteenth Century, David Gillard
7. European States and African Political Communities, Hedley Bull
Part II: The Entry of Non-European States into International Society
8. The Emergence of a Universal International Society, Hedley Bull
9. New States in America, Adam Watson
10. The Ottoman Empire and the European States System, Thomas Naff
11. China's Entry into International Society, Gerrit W. Gong
12. Japan's Entry into International Society, Hidemi Suganami
13. The Era of the Mandates System and the Non-European World, Wm. Roger Louis
Part III: The Challenge to Western Dominance
14. The Revolt Against the West, Hedley Bull
15. The Emergence of the Third World, Peter Lyon
16. Racial Equality, R.J. Vincent
17. China and the International Order, Coral Bell
18. India and the International Order: Retreat from Idealism, Gopal Krishna
19. Africa Entrapped: Between the Protestant Ethic and the Legacy of Westphalia, Ali Mazrui
20. Islam in the International Order, James Piscatori
21. The Soviet Union and the Third World: From Anti-Imperialism to Counter-Imperialism, Richard Lowenthal
22. France: Adjustment to Change, Christopher M. Andrew
Part IV: The New International Society
23. A New International Disorder, Elie Kedourie
24. The Expansion of International Society: The Consequences for the Law of Nations, Ian Brownlie
25. Diplomacy Today, Michael Palliser
26. The International Order in a Multicultural World, Adda Bozeman
27. Unity and Diversity in Contemporary World Culture, Ronald Dore