The Myth of 1648: Class, Geopolitics, and the Making of Modern International Relations - Brossura

Teschke, Benno

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ISBN 10: 1844673723 ISBN 13: 9781844673728

Casa editrice: Verso Books, 2009

Riassunto

Winner of the 2003 Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize This book rejects a commonplace of European history: that the treaties of Westphalia not only closed the Thirty Years' War but also inaugurated a new international order driven by the interaction of territorial sovereign states. Benno Teschke, through this thorough and incisive critique, argues that this is not the case. Domestic 'social property relations' shaped international relations in continental Europe down to 1789 and even beyond. The dynastic monarchies that ruled during this time differed from their medieval predecessors in degree and form of personalization, but not in underlying dynamic. 1648, therefore, is a false caesura in the history of international relations. For real change we must wait until relatively recent times and the development of modern states and true capitalism. In effect, it's not until governments are run impersonally, with no function other than the exercise of its monopoly on violence, that modern international relations are born.

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Recensione

A seminal book which sets out to revolutionise the way we think about international relations... an extraordinarily ambitious project carried through brilliantly to a triumphant success... The book is destined to produce a new research programme in international theory. --Peter Gowan

A truly first-rate piece of work... he completely demolishes a reigning consensus. --Robert Brenner

L'autore

Benno Teschke is Senior Lecturer in the Department of International Relations at the University of Sussex. He was previously a Lecturer in the Department of International Relations & Politics at the University of Wales, Swansea, and Andrew Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Social Theory and Comparative History at UCLA. Benno received his PhD from the Department of International Relations, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Verso Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1844673723
• ISBN 13: 9781844673728
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero edizione: 2
• Numero di pagine: 322