Civilisation, Barbarism and the Making of Latin America’s Place in 19th-Century International Society

Datos Bibliográficos

ID11922565
AutoresCarsten-Andreas Schulz (0000-0001-5926-5271, University of Oxford, autor de correspondencia)
Año2014
Volumen42
Número3
Páginas837-859
Fecha de publicación2014-06-01
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaMillennium Journal of International Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0305-8298 • E-ISSN: 1477-9021
EditorialSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0305829814541318
OpenAlexW2125184908
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas20

The present study revisits the position accorded to Latin American states in the conventional account of the expansion of international society. Drawing on English School theory and legal history, it develops a critique of the ‘standard of civilisation’, contending that the boundaries of international society were much more malleable and diffuse than the conventional narrative suggests. The argument is illustrated with reference to the historical experience of Latin American states: despite the profound impact that European colonisation had on the region, the marginalisation of Latin American states within international society was commonly framed in civilisational terms. Rather than taking their ‘western’ identity and thus membership for granted, the paper demonstrates the role that civilisational rhetoric played in the making of Latin America’s place in the heterarchical international order of the ‘long 19th century’. The article concludes by discussing some implications for theorising the evolution of international society

Aesthetics · Argument (complex analysis · Barbarism · Civilization · Identity (music · Latin Americans · Narrative · Political economy · Political science · Rhetoric · Social science · Sociology · Theology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Historical Studies in Latin America · International Relations in Latin America · Law · Philosophy