Society and Hierarchy in International Relations

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4444880
AutoresTim Dunne (University of Wales, Aberystwyth,, autor correspondente)
Ano2003
Volume17
Fascículo3
Páginas303-320
Data de publicação2003-09-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoInternational Relations (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0047-1178 • E-ISSN: 1741-2862
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/00471178030173004
OpenAlexW2066466277
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas51
Referências citadas1

The emerging pattern of crisis and war triggered by the terror attacks on New York and Washington in September 2001 and sustained through successive wars against Afghanistan and Iraq, provides a new context within which we must re-evaluate the English School claim that international society is a key element in the reality of world politics. From today's perspective, two dilemmas are undermining international society. There is the old fear that international order - meaning the security of the actors and the stability of the system - cannot be sustained without the members of international society participating in the working of common institutions. And there is the new fear that US preponderance is such that even prudential considerations are not sufficient to compel it to act in ways that support international order. Running these arguments together, we are forced to address the question, `How far can international society be maintained alongside a hierarchical system

Context (archaeology) · Economics · Element (criminal law) · Epistemology · Hierarchy · International relations · International security · Law and economics · Meaning (existential) · Order (exchange) · Perspective (graphical) · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · World order · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · International Relations and Foreign Policy · Law