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The World Imagined - Collective Beliefs and Political Order in the Sinocentric, Islamic and Southeast Asian International Societies (Hardcover)
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The World Imagined - Collective Beliefs and Political Order in the Sinocentric, Islamic and Southeast Asian International Societies (Hardcover)
Series: LSE International Studies
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Taking an inter-disciplinary approach, Spruyt explains the
political organization of three non-European international
societies from early modernity to the late nineteenth century. The
Ottoman, Safavid and Mughal empires; the Sinocentric tributary
system; and the Southeast Asian galactic empires, all which
differed in key respects from the modern Westphalian state system.
In each of these societies, collective beliefs were critical in
structuring domestic orders and relations with other polities.
These multi-ethnic empires allowed for greater accommodation and
heterogeneity in comparison to the homogeneity that is demanded by
the modern nation-state. Furthermore, Spruyt examines the encounter
between these non-European systems and the West. Contrary to
unidirectional descriptions of the encounter, these non-Westphalian
polities creatively adapted to Western principles of organization
and international conduct. By illuminating the encounter of the
West and these Eurasian polities, this book serves to question the
popular wisdom of modernity, wherein the Western nation-state is
perceived as the desired norm, to be replicated in other polities.
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