This book asks if it is time to “reboot” the fundamental institutions of global international society. The volume revisits Hedley Bull’s seminal contribution The Anarchical Society by exploring the interconnected nature of change, contestation and resilience for maintaining order in today’s uncertain and complex environment. The volume adds to Bull’s theorizing by recognizing that order demands change, that contestation should be welcomed, and that resilience is anchored in local and agent-led forms of ordering. The contributors to Part One of the book focus on theoretical and conceptual issues related to order in the global international society, whilst the contributors to Part Two of the book focus on the primary institutions as listed by Hedley Bull with the addition of a chapter on the market adding a distinctive commentary on new and important dynamics of change, contestation and resilience of the existing institutions.
Author(s): Trine Flockhart; Zachary Paikin
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2022
1 Introduction: Rebooting Global International Society 1 Zachary Paikin and Trine Flockhart
Part I Theory and Concepts
2 Theorizing Change in the English School 21
Trine Flockhart
3 Contestation in Global International Society 41 Zachary Paikin
4 Resilience in Global International Society 59 Elena Korosteleva and Irina Petrova
5 The Relationship Between Primar y and Secondar y Institutions: Theorizing Institutional Change 79 Tonny Brems Knudsen
Part II Institutions
6 Sovereignty Is Dead, Long Live Sovereignty 109
Christian Reus-Smit
7 The Balance of Power and the Independence
of Nations 133
Morten Skumsrud Andersen
8 Change, Contestation and Resilience in Great Power Management 155 Jorge M. Lasmar
9 War—Still an Institution of International Society? 179 Amelie Theussen
10 Old Bull, New China Shop: The Institution
of Diplomacy and the Sino-American Struggle
for Influence at the UN 199 Richard Gowan
11 Cum Haereticis Fides Non Servanda: International
Law’s Resilience in a Pluralistic World? 215 Vincent Charles Keating and Amelie Theussen
12 The Market in Global International Society:
A Dialectic of Contestation and Resilience 237 Barry Buzan and Robert Falkner
13 Conclusions 261 Richard Ned Lebow
Index 283