Understanding how cultural diversity relates to international order is an urgent contemporary challenge. Building on ideas first advanced in Reus-Smit's On Cultural Diversity (2018), this groundbreaking book advances a new framework for understanding the nexus between culture and order in world politics. Through a pioneering interdisciplinary collaboration between leading historians, international lawyers, sociologists and international relations scholars, it argues that cultural diversity in social life is ubiquitous rather than exceptional, and demonstrates that the organization of cultural diversity has been inextricably tied to the constitution and legitimation of political authority in diverse international orders, from Warring States China, through early modern Europe and the Ottoman and Qing Empires, to today's global liberal order. It highlights the successive 'diversity regimes' that have been constructed to govern cultural difference since the nineteenth century, traces the exclusions and resistances these projects have engendered and considers contemporary global vulnerabilities and axes of contestation.
Author(s): Andrew Phillips; Christian Reus-Smit
Series: LSE International Studies
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2020
Language: English
Pages: 440
01.0_pp_i_i_Culture_and_Order_in_World_Politics
02.0_pp_ii_ii_LSE_International_Studies
03.0_pp_iii_iii_Culture_and_Order_in_World_Politics
04.0_pp_iv_iv_Copyright_page
05.0_pp_v_vi_Contents
06.0_pp_vii_vii_Additional_material
07.0_pp_viii_xii_Contributors
08.0_pp_xiii_xvi_Preface
09.0_pp_1_46_Introduction
09.1_pp_3_22_Introduction
09.2_pp_23_46_Culture_and_Order_in_World_Politics
10.0_pp_47_112_Historical_Orders
10.1_pp_49_70_The_Ottomans_and_Diversity
10.2_pp_71_92_Qing_and_Twentieth-Century_Chinese_Diversity_Regimes
10.3_pp_93_112_Cultural_Diversity_and_Coercive_Cultural_Homogenization_in_Chinese_History
11.0_pp_113_204_The_Modern_Liberal_Order
11.1_pp_115_136_Cultural_Diversity_within_Global_International_Society
11.2_pp_137_158_Liberal_Internationalism_and_Cultural_Diversity
11.3_pp_159_181_When_Liberal_States_Bite_Back
11.4_pp_182_204_Global_Institutional_Imaginaries
12.0_pp_205_316_Constitution_and_Contestation
12.1_pp_207_231_Universal_and_European
12.2_pp_232_249_The_Jewish_Problem_in_International_Society
12.3_pp_250_270_Recognizing_Diversity
12.4_pp_271_293_Gender_Nation_and_the_Generation_of_Cultural_Difference_across_The_West
12.5_pp_294_316_Governing_Culture_Credibly
13.0_pp_317_328_Conclusion
13.1_pp_319_328_Conclusion
14.0_pp_329_366_References
15.0_pp_367_380_Index
