Hendrik Spruyt
Biographic Data
| ID | 1285895 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hendrik Spruyt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hendrik |
| FAMILY NAME | Spruyt |
| SIGNATURE | SPRUYT H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Arizona State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 225 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 26 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
On ‘practice’ and ‘doing’ in historical and international studies
Spruyt, Hendrik. The World Imagined
The World Imagined
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…
The Longue Durée and the impact of the Eurasian Steppe
Andrew Phillips labels Neumann and Wigen’s The Steppe Tradition in International Relations as a ‘masterpiece’ in his remarks on the back cover of the book. But by which standards might we regard a
Collective Imaginations and International Order
A large body of scholarship in Political Science suggests that the material power of a dominant state is critical for the stabilization of international order. Consequently, the relative decline of the United States and the ascendance of China raise concerns regarding the stability of the current international system. By contrast, culturalist accounts such as David Kang’s East Asia before the West submit that a stable order can be based on a shar…
War and State Formation
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Civil Wars as Challenges to the Modern International System
The current international system is based on Westphalian principles in which authority is defined territorially. Within this territory, the state has sole jurisdiction. Adherence to these principles has contributed to the decline of interstate war. Conversely, applying these principles and correlated norms to states that gained their independence after 1945 has contributed to civil conflicts. These norms are opaque, as is the case with the princi…
War, Trade, and State Formation
This article provides a short account of European state formation. The generative factors behind the transformation of late medieval forms of government to new types of authority are discussed in the first section. This transformation was conducted through the selection and convergence among these distinct types of authority. The article moves on to a discussion of the process of state formation and its effects on the type of regime that emerged …
Contracting States
Increasingly today nation-states are entering into agreements that involve the sharing or surrendering of parts of their sovereign powers and often leave the cession of authority incomplete or vague. But until now, we have known surprisingly little about how international actors design and implement these mixed-sovereignty arrangements. Contracting States uses the concept of "incomplete contracts"--agreements that are intentionally ambiguous and …
American Empire” as an Analytic Question or a Rhetorical Move
Journal Article “American Empire” as an Analytic Question or a Rhetorical Move? Get access Hendrik Spruyt Hendrik Spruyt Northwestern University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Studies Perspectives, Volume 9, Issue 3, August 2008, Pages 290–299, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1528-3585.2008.00335.x Published: 20 July 2008
Genealogy, Territorial Acquisition and The Capitalist State
Ending Empire
At the dawn of the twentieth century, imperial powers controlled most of the globe. Within a few decades after World War II, many of the great empires had dissolved, and more recently, multinational polities have similarly disbanded. This process of reallocating patterns of authority, from internal hierarchy to inter-state relations, proved far more contentious in some cases than in others. While some governments exited the colonial era without b…
Ending Empire
Our past as prologue
This editorial introduction to the tenth anniversary issue of the Review of International Political Economy places both the birth of RIPE the journal and the critiques that it has spawned of the so-called ‘Washington consensus’ in a longer historical context. We map the emergence of two distinct ‘Washington Consensi’ – one based around GATT/Bretton Woods/Welfare States/and Kenynesian ideas and one based around the WTO/Open Capital Accounts/Hard C…
Theorigins, Development, Andpossibledecline of Themodernstate
Some contemporary states seem subject to aggregational dynamics that bring them together in larger regional associations, whereas others fall prey to centrifugal forces that pull them apart. The autonomy of all states has been drawn into question by the globalization of trade and finance. For these reasons, scholars have returned to examining the historical origins and development of the modern state in the hope that this may shed light on its fu…
The supply and demand of governance in standard-setting
Governance in standard-setting can be distinguished in the degree of public or private oversight, and in the degree to which the environment is hierarchical or anarchical. This variation in governance structures can be explained by three variables: (1) the gains that flow to political entrepreneurs in supplying state intervention; (2) the strategic setting in which private and public actors operate; and (3) the intrinsic attributes of the good in…
The End of Empire and the Extension of the Westphalian System
The End of Empire and the Extension of the Westphalian System: The Normative Basis of the Modern State Order Get access Hendrik Spruyt Hendrik Spruyt Department of Political Science, Arizona State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Studies Review, Volume 2, Issue 2, Summer 2000, Pages 65–92, https://doi.org/10.1111/1521-9488.00205 Published: 17 December 2002
What Is the Polity
The sovereign state became the dominant political form in a relatively brief period that began in Westphalian Europe and continued with European colonization. Contemporary states face increased challenges from inside and outside, and a global crisis of authority looms. Although the state as a form is highly variable and not about to disappear, a growing number and variety of other polities are moving toward center stage. The initiators of this ro…
People in Political Science
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The limits of neorealism
This paper specifies the conditions for conflict in Central Asia. Given Russian preponderance this should be an easy case for neorealism. But we demonstrate that the consequences of Russia's superior power will depend on the nature of its regime and domestic stability in Central Asia. The type of nationalism, the robustness of political institutions, and the success or failure of economic reform will be critical conditions for Central Asian stabi…
Historical sociology and systems theory in international relations
With good reason scholars of international relations have been partial to systems theorizing. They have long understood that decisions of states to engage in war, to raise tariffs, to deter in one area and appease in another, hinge on what other actors are doing or how the other actors might interpret those states' actions. Units (states or other types of actors) are 'interconnected so that changes in some elements of their relations produce chan…
A new architecture for peace? Reconfiguring Japan among the great powers
In time Japan will shed domestic and historical constraints and engage in a more activist foreign policy commensurate with its great power status. Given the end of the Cold War, multipolarity, the uncertain security environment of East Asia, the growth of intra‐state conflicts, the relative shift in the balance of power, and American dissatisfaction with external engagements, Japanese elites will necessarily re‐examine the country's traditionally…
The Sovereign State and Its Competitors
List of Maps and TablesPrefaceIntroduction3Pt. IContingency, Choice, and Constraint9Ch. 1Structural Change in International Relations11Ch. 2Organizational Variation and Selection in the International System22Ch. 3Modes of Nonterritorial Organization: Feudalism, the Church, and the Holy Roman Empire34Pt. IIThe Emergence of New Modes of Organization59Ch. 4The Economic Renaissance of the Late Middle Ages61Ch. 5The Rise of the Sovereign, Territorial …
Institutional selection in international relations
By the end of the medieval era, three new competing institutions attempted to capture gains from trade and reduce feudal particularism: sovereign territorial states, cityleagues, and city-states. By the middle of the seventeenth century, city-leagues and city-states had declined markedly. Territorial states survived as the dominant form because they were able to reduce free riding, lower transaction costs, and credibly commit their constituents. …
The Sovereign State and Its Competitors
List of Maps and TablesPrefaceIntroduction3Pt. IContingency, Choice, and Constraint9Ch. 1Structural Change in International Relations11Ch. 2Organizational Variation and Selection in the International System22Ch. 3Modes of Nonterritorial Organization: Feudalism, the Church, and the Holy Roman Empire34Pt. IIThe Emergence of New Modes of Organization59Ch. 4The Economic Renaissance of the Late Middle Ages61Ch. 5The Rise of the Sovereign, Territorial …
Institutional selection in international relations
By the end of the medieval era, three new competing institutions attempted to capture gains from trade and reduce feudal particularism: sovereign territorial states, cityleagues, and city-states. By the middle of the seventeenth century, city-leagues and city-states had declined markedly. Territorial states survived as the dominant form because they were able to reduce free riding, lower transaction costs, and credibly commit their constituents. …
Theorigins, Development, Andpossibledecline of Themodernstate
Some contemporary states seem subject to aggregational dynamics that bring them together in larger regional associations, whereas others fall prey to centrifugal forces that pull them apart. The autonomy of all states has been drawn into question by the globalization of trade and finance. For these reasons, scholars have returned to examining the historical origins and development of the modern state in the hope that this may shed light on its fu…
The supply and demand of governance in standard-setting
Governance in standard-setting can be distinguished in the degree of public or private oversight, and in the degree to which the environment is hierarchical or anarchical. This variation in governance structures can be explained by three variables: (1) the gains that flow to political entrepreneurs in supplying state intervention; (2) the strategic setting in which private and public actors operate; and (3) the intrinsic attributes of the good in…
The End of Empire and the Extension of the Westphalian System
The End of Empire and the Extension of the Westphalian System: The Normative Basis of the Modern State Order Get access Hendrik Spruyt Hendrik Spruyt Department of Political Science, Arizona State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Studies Review, Volume 2, Issue 2, Summer 2000, Pages 65–92, https://doi.org/10.1111/1521-9488.00205 Published: 17 December 2002
What Is the Polity
The sovereign state became the dominant political form in a relatively brief period that began in Westphalian Europe and continued with European colonization. Contemporary states face increased challenges from inside and outside, and a global crisis of authority looms. Although the state as a form is highly variable and not about to disappear, a growing number and variety of other polities are moving toward center stage. The initiators of this ro…
The limits of neorealism
This paper specifies the conditions for conflict in Central Asia. Given Russian preponderance this should be an easy case for neorealism. But we demonstrate that the consequences of Russia's superior power will depend on the nature of its regime and domestic stability in Central Asia. The type of nationalism, the robustness of political institutions, and the success or failure of economic reform will be critical conditions for Central Asian stabi…
Historical sociology and systems theory in international relations
With good reason scholars of international relations have been partial to systems theorizing. They have long understood that decisions of states to engage in war, to raise tariffs, to deter in one area and appease in another, hinge on what other actors are doing or how the other actors might interpret those states' actions. Units (states or other types of actors) are 'interconnected so that changes in some elements of their relations produce chan…
American Empire” as an Analytic Question or a Rhetorical Move
Journal Article “American Empire” as an Analytic Question or a Rhetorical Move? Get access Hendrik Spruyt Hendrik Spruyt Northwestern University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Studies Perspectives, Volume 9, Issue 3, August 2008, Pages 290–299, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1528-3585.2008.00335.x Published: 20 July 2008
Civil Wars as Challenges to the Modern International System
The current international system is based on Westphalian principles in which authority is defined territorially. Within this territory, the state has sole jurisdiction. Adherence to these principles has contributed to the decline of interstate war. Conversely, applying these principles and correlated norms to states that gained their independence after 1945 has contributed to civil conflicts. These norms are opaque, as is the case with the princi…
A new architecture for peace? Reconfiguring Japan among the great powers
In time Japan will shed domestic and historical constraints and engage in a more activist foreign policy commensurate with its great power status. Given the end of the Cold War, multipolarity, the uncertain security environment of East Asia, the growth of intra‐state conflicts, the relative shift in the balance of power, and American dissatisfaction with external engagements, Japanese elites will necessarily re‐examine the country's traditionally…
Genealogy, Territorial Acquisition and The Capitalist State
Our past as prologue
This editorial introduction to the tenth anniversary issue of the Review of International Political Economy places both the birth of RIPE the journal and the critiques that it has spawned of the so-called ‘Washington consensus’ in a longer historical context. We map the emergence of two distinct ‘Washington Consensi’ – one based around GATT/Bretton Woods/Welfare States/and Kenynesian ideas and one based around the WTO/Open Capital Accounts/Hard C…
Misconstruing the First Image
Recently this journal published a psychotherapist's view of the arms race. The author, Francoise Hall, argued that the US is objectively confronted with increasing problems with the Third World, but has displaced these to the sphere of East-West relations. In the latter sphere, however, the US's hostile perception is not buttressed by objective evidence. This analysis fails on two grounds. First, it is unable to surmount the theoretical problem o…
The Sovereign State and Its Competitors
List of Maps and TablesPrefaceIntroduction3Pt. IContingency, Choice, and Constraint9Ch. 1Structural Change in International Relations11Ch. 2Organizational Variation and Selection in the International System22Ch. 3Modes of Nonterritorial Organization: Feudalism, the Church, and the Holy Roman Empire34Pt. IIThe Emergence of New Modes of Organization59Ch. 4The Economic Renaissance of the Late Middle Ages61Ch. 5The Rise of the Sovereign, Territorial …
Institutional selection in international relations
By the end of the medieval era, three new competing institutions attempted to capture gains from trade and reduce feudal particularism: sovereign territorial states, cityleagues, and city-states. By the middle of the seventeenth century, city-leagues and city-states had declined markedly. Territorial states survived as the dominant form because they were able to reduce free riding, lower transaction costs, and credibly commit their constituents. …
Historical sociology and systems theory in international relations
With good reason scholars of international relations have been partial to systems theorizing. They have long understood that decisions of states to engage in war, to raise tariffs, to deter in one area and appease in another, hinge on what other actors are doing or how the other actors might interpret those states' actions. Units (states or other types of actors) are 'interconnected so that changes in some elements of their relations produce chan…
A new architecture for peace? Reconfiguring Japan among the great powers
In time Japan will shed domestic and historical constraints and engage in a more activist foreign policy commensurate with its great power status. Given the end of the Cold War, multipolarity, the uncertain security environment of East Asia, the growth of intra‐state conflicts, the relative shift in the balance of power, and American dissatisfaction with external engagements, Japanese elites will necessarily re‐examine the country's traditionally…
The limits of neorealism
This paper specifies the conditions for conflict in Central Asia. Given Russian preponderance this should be an easy case for neorealism. But we demonstrate that the consequences of Russia's superior power will depend on the nature of its regime and domestic stability in Central Asia. The type of nationalism, the robustness of political institutions, and the success or failure of economic reform will be critical conditions for Central Asian stabi…
The End of Empire and the Extension of the Westphalian System
The End of Empire and the Extension of the Westphalian System: The Normative Basis of the Modern State Order Get access Hendrik Spruyt Hendrik Spruyt Department of Political Science, Arizona State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Studies Review, Volume 2, Issue 2, Summer 2000, Pages 65–92, https://doi.org/10.1111/1521-9488.00205 Published: 17 December 2002
What Is the Polity
The sovereign state became the dominant political form in a relatively brief period that began in Westphalian Europe and continued with European colonization. Contemporary states face increased challenges from inside and outside, and a global crisis of authority looms. Although the state as a form is highly variable and not about to disappear, a growing number and variety of other polities are moving toward center stage. The initiators of this ro…
People in Political Science
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Other books in review
The supply and demand of governance in standard-setting
Governance in standard-setting can be distinguished in the degree of public or private oversight, and in the degree to which the environment is hierarchical or anarchical. This variation in governance structures can be explained by three variables: (1) the gains that flow to political entrepreneurs in supplying state intervention; (2) the strategic setting in which private and public actors operate; and (3) the intrinsic attributes of the good in…
Theorigins, Development, Andpossibledecline of Themodernstate
Some contemporary states seem subject to aggregational dynamics that bring them together in larger regional associations, whereas others fall prey to centrifugal forces that pull them apart. The autonomy of all states has been drawn into question by the globalization of trade and finance. For these reasons, scholars have returned to examining the historical origins and development of the modern state in the hope that this may shed light on its fu…
Our past as prologue
This editorial introduction to the tenth anniversary issue of the Review of International Political Economy places both the birth of RIPE the journal and the critiques that it has spawned of the so-called ‘Washington consensus’ in a longer historical context. We map the emergence of two distinct ‘Washington Consensi’ – one based around GATT/Bretton Woods/Welfare States/and Kenynesian ideas and one based around the WTO/Open Capital Accounts/Hard C…
Ending Empire
At the dawn of the twentieth century, imperial powers controlled most of the globe. Within a few decades after World War II, many of the great empires had dissolved, and more recently, multinational polities have similarly disbanded. This process of reallocating patterns of authority, from internal hierarchy to inter-state relations, proved far more contentious in some cases than in others. While some governments exited the colonial era without b…
Ending Empire
Genealogy, Territorial Acquisition and The Capitalist State
American Empire” as an Analytic Question or a Rhetorical Move
Journal Article “American Empire” as an Analytic Question or a Rhetorical Move? Get access Hendrik Spruyt Hendrik Spruyt Northwestern University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Studies Perspectives, Volume 9, Issue 3, August 2008, Pages 290–299, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1528-3585.2008.00335.x Published: 20 July 2008
Contracting States
Increasingly today nation-states are entering into agreements that involve the sharing or surrendering of parts of their sovereign powers and often leave the cession of authority incomplete or vague. But until now, we have known surprisingly little about how international actors design and implement these mixed-sovereignty arrangements. Contracting States uses the concept of "incomplete contracts"--agreements that are intentionally ambiguous and …
War, Trade, and State Formation
This article provides a short account of European state formation. The generative factors behind the transformation of late medieval forms of government to new types of authority are discussed in the first section. This transformation was conducted through the selection and convergence among these distinct types of authority. The article moves on to a discussion of the process of state formation and its effects on the type of regime that emerged …
Collective Imaginations and International Order
A large body of scholarship in Political Science suggests that the material power of a dominant state is critical for the stabilization of international order. Consequently, the relative decline of the United States and the ascendance of China raise concerns regarding the stability of the current international system. By contrast, culturalist accounts such as David Kang’s East Asia before the West submit that a stable order can be based on a shar…
War and State Formation
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Civil Wars as Challenges to the Modern International System
The current international system is based on Westphalian principles in which authority is defined territorially. Within this territory, the state has sole jurisdiction. Adherence to these principles has contributed to the decline of interstate war. Conversely, applying these principles and correlated norms to states that gained their independence after 1945 has contributed to civil conflicts. These norms are opaque, as is the case with the princi…
The World Imagined
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…
The Longue Durée and the impact of the Eurasian Steppe
Andrew Phillips labels Neumann and Wigen’s The Steppe Tradition in International Relations as a ‘masterpiece’ in his remarks on the back cover of the book. But by which standards might we regard a
Spruyt, Hendrik. The World Imagined
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