Rebooting Global International Society: Change, Contestation and Resilience (Governance, Security and Development)

✍ Scribed by Trine Flockhart (editor), Zachary Paikin (editor)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2023
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 302
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Praise for Rebooting Global International Society
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
1 Introduction: Rebooting Global International Society
Connecting Order with Change, Contestation and Resilience
From International System to International Society to Global International Society
The Fundamental Institutions of (Global) International Society
Structure and Content of the Volume
Bibliography
Part I Theory and Concepts
2 Theorizing Change in the English School
Thinking About Change in IR
Theorizing Change in the English School
Towards Theorizing Change in the English School
Theorizing Change Through a Framework of Ideal Types
Conclusion
Bibliography
3 Contestation in Global International Society
Theorizing Contestation in the English School
Culture, Contestation and International Society
Contestation of the Liberal International Order
Conclusion
Bibliography
4 Resilience in Global International Society
Resilience as a Way of Thinking in a Changing and Contested World
Connecting Change and Contestation to Resilience
The Salience of the ‘Human Community’ in Making GIS Resilient
Conclusion
Bibliography
5 The Relationship Between Primary and Secondary Institutions: Theorizing Institutional Change
The Fundamental Institutionalism of the English School
Enter Holsti and Buzan: Institutional Levels and Markers of Change
The Added Value: Narrow and Broad Conceptions of Institutional Change
Enter Early Constructivism: Agency and Mutual Constitution
The Added Value: An International Society Theory of Institutional Change
Enter Political Science: New Institutionalism on Change in International Society
Contestation, Resilience and Complexity in Institutional Change
The New World Order as Institutional Change: Drivers, Contestations and Resilience
Conclusion
Bibliography
Part II Institutions
6 Sovereignty Is Dead, Long Live Sovereignty
Sovereignty in English School Theory
Three Revisions
Dimensions and Drivers of Change
The Fate of Sovereignty Today
Conclusion
References
7 The Balance of Power and the Independence of Nations
Hedley Bull’s Balance of Power
The Shifting Meanings of the Balance
Resilience and Contestation: The Balance of Power and Conceptual Change
The Congress of Vienna and Its Aftermath
Sacrificing Genoa
The Balance Strikes Back
Conclusions
Bibliography
8 Change, Contestation and Resilience in Great Power Management
Change, Contestation and Resilience in Primary Institutions
Great Power Management and Resilience During the Expansion of European International Society
Great Power Management and Resilience During the Cold War
Great Power Management in the post-Cold War Era
The First Moment of Contestation: GPM and the Ending of the Cold War
The Second Moment of Contestation: GPM and the GWoT
The Third Moment of Contestation: GPM Post-GWoT and the Advent of Global International Society
The Fourth Moment of Contestation: GPM and Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
Conclusion
Bibliography
9 War—Still an Institution of International Society?
War in the Past: A Resilient Institution of International Society?
Change and Contestation: The ‘Expansion’ and ‘Globalization’ of War?
The Outlawing of War and Its Obsolescence
The De-Institutionalization of War
The Re-Institutionalization of War
Conclusion: Future War—An Institution ‘Fit for Purpose’?
Bibliography
10 Old Bull, New China Shop: The Institution of Diplomacy and the Sino-American Struggle for Influence at the UN
The English School and the United Nations
China, the US and the Struggle for the UN
Categories of Contest
Great Power Management?
Out of Bounds: Human Rights and Chinese Sovereignty at the UN
Conclusion
Bibliography
11 Cum Haereticis Fides Non Servanda: International Law’s Resilience in a Pluralistic World?
Resilience, International Law, and the English School
Change and Contestation After the Cold War
The Responsibility to Protect
Torture in the War on Terror
Conclusion: The Future of International Law’s Resilience
Bibliography
12 The Market in Global International Society: A Dialectic of Contestation and Resilience
The Market as a Primary Institution
The Market in GIS: Change and Contestation
The ‘Golden Age’: Nineteenth Century to 1914
War and the Retreat of the Market: 1914–1945
The Bretton Woods Compromise: 1945–1973
The Global Neoliberal Resurgence of the Market: 1973–2007
Crisis (and Retreat?): 2008-Present
Outlook and Conclusions
Bibliography
13 Conclusions
Contestation and Change
Institutions
Resilience
What Can Be Done?
Bibliography
Index