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The Two Worlds of Nineteenth Century International Relations - The Bifurcated Century (Paperback)
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The Two Worlds of Nineteenth Century International Relations - The Bifurcated Century (Paperback)
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This edited volume presents a new, grand and global narrative for
international relations (IR) history in the pivotal nineteenth
century. Typically considered by IR scholars to be a long century
of relative peace after 1815, the contributors offer a
reconceptualization of IR in this century, arguing that it is
temporally bifurcated, with very different patterns of behavior in
the first and second halves. A mid-century discontinuity - a "pivot
period" - marks the transition phase in Europe and globally when,
in the space of a few years, a shift occurred from a comparatively
calm, politically disconnected world under loose British free trade
hegemony to one of scrambles for territory and keen interest in
imperial possessions and conquest. All the book's chapters deal
with characterizing patterns of relations in the first half of the
century or the second, with two addressing the discontinuity in the
middle. In the first half aspects of regional orders are described
(in Latin America, East Asia and Europe) alongside crucial
developmental processes (missionaries and colonial expansion, the
agency of regionally localized actors, of leading elites). In the
second half, there is again discussion of regional developments
(East Asia, Europe), but now under the onslaught and pressures of
the latter half of the century, and spotlighting
industrialization's impact and the role of status competition and
international law. In presenting this new narrative for the
nineteenth century, it becomes clear that an era long considered
uninteresting on Eurocentric grounds is in fact crucial and pivotal
in global terms. This work will be of particular interest to
students and scholars of the history of international relations.
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