04786nam a2200565Ka 4500 ocn702115512 OCoLC 20200709055321.0 m d cr cnu---unuuu 110216s2011 enk ob 001 0 eng d N$T N$T 9780521122092 0521122090 9780521191289 0521191289 9780511933042 (electronic bk.) 0511933045 (electronic bk.) (OCoLC)702115512 347908 (N$T) BL65.I56 P47 2011eb REL 070000 bisacsh OCC 033000 bisacsh 201/.7270902 22 N$TA Phillips, Andrew, 1977- War, religion, and empire [electronic resource] : the transformation of international orders / Andrew Phillips. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011. 1 online resource (364 p.) Cambridge studies in international relations ; 117 "What are international orders, how are they destroyed, and how can they be defended in the face of violent challenges? Advancing an innovative realist-constructivist account of international order, Andrew Phillips addresses each of these questions in War, Religion and Empire. Phillips argues that international orders rely equally on shared visions of the good and accepted practices of organized violence to cultivate cooperation and manage conflict between political communities. Considering medieval Christendom's collapse and the East Asian Sinosphere's destruction as primary cases, he further argues that international orders are destroyed as a result of legitimation crises punctuated by the disintegration of prevailing social imaginaries, the break-up of empires, and the rise of disruptive military innovations. He concludes by considering contemporary threats to world order, and the responses that must be taken in the coming decades if a broadly liberal international order is to survive"-- Provided by publisher. "International orders do not last forever. Throughout history, rulers have struggled to cultivate amity and contain enmity between different political communities. From ancient Rome down to the Sino-centric order that prevailed in East Asia as recently as the nineteenth century, the impulse for order was most often realised via the institution of empire. The rulers of the Greek city-states, their Renaissance counterparts, and the feuding kings of China's Period of Warring States alternatively secured order within the framework of sovereign state systems. The papal-imperial diarchy that prevailed in Christendom from the eleventh century to the early sixteenth century provides yet a third form of international order, which was neither imperial nor sovereign but rather heteronomous in its ordering principles"-- Provided by publisher. Introduction; Part I. Conceptual Framework: 1. What are international orders?; 2. Accounting for the transformation of international orders; Part II. The Historical Transformation of International Orders: 3. The origins, constitution and decay of Latin Christendom; 4. The collapse of Latin Christendom; 5. Anarchy without society: Europe after Christendom and before sovereignty; 6. The origins, constitution and decay of the sinosphere; 7. Heavenly kingdom, imperial nemesis: barbarians, martyrs and the collapse of the sinosphere; 8. Into the abyss: civilization, barbarism and the end of the sinosphere; 9. The great disorder and the birth of the East Asian sovereign state system; Part III. Contemporary Challenges and Future Trajectories of World Order: 10. The Jihadist terrorist challenge to the global state system; Conclusion. Description based on print version record. Religion and international relations. Church history Middle Ages, 600-1500. Christianity and politics History Middle Ages, 600-1500. Islam and politics. International relations. Terrorism Religious aspects. Religion and politics. Electronic books. RELIGION / Christianity / General bisacsh BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Gaia & Earth Energies bisacsh Print version: Phillips, Andrew, 1977- War, religion, and empire. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010 9780521122092 (DLC) 2010030393 (OCoLC)656770997 Cambridge studies in international relations. NetLibrary http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=347908 cpp1723AUTO 02 N$T 50103 50103