The Clash of Ideas in World Politics
Transnational Networks, States, and Regime Change, 1510-2010
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23398653 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John M Owens (0000-0003-0458-1992, corresponding author), John M Owen, John M IV Owen |
| Year | 2010 |
| Pages | 352 |
| Publication date | 2010-12-31 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Clash of Ideas in World Politics (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Princeton University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1515/9781400836765 |
| OpenAlex | W52635266 |
| Open Library | OL29015350M |
| ISBN | 9781400836765 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 71 |
Some blame the violence and unrest in the Muslim world on Islam itself, arguing that the religion and its history is inherently bloody. Others blame the United States, arguing that American attempts to spread democracy by force have destabilized the region, and that these efforts are somehow radical or unique. Challenging these views, The Clash of Ideas in World Politics reveals how the Muslim world is in the throes of an ideological struggle that extends far beyond the Middle East, and how struggles like it have been a recurring feature of international relations since the dawn of the modern European state. John Owen examines more than two hundred cases of forcible regime promotion over the past five centuries, offering the first systematic study of this common state practice. He looks at conflicts between Catholicism and Protestantism between 1520 and the 1680s; republicanism and monarchy between 1770 and 1850; and communism, fascism, and liberal democracy from 1917 until the late 1980s. He shows how regime promotion can follow regime unrest in the eventual target state or a war involving a great power, and how this can provoke elites across states to polarize according to ideology. Owen traces how conflicts arise and ultimately fade as one ideology wins favor with more elites in more countries, and he demonstrates how the struggle between secularism and Islamism in Muslim countries today reflects broader transnational trends in world history.
Political science · Politics · American Constitutional Law and Politics · International Relations and Foreign Policy · Law · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East · Religion and Society Interactions
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The global transformation
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Anglo-American Primacy and the Global Spread of Democracy
Intervention and Regime Change
Assault on Democracy
Sell unipolarity? The future of an overvalued concept
Military Competition and the Emergence of Nationalism: Putting the Logic of Political Survival into Historical Context
Changing state structures
Transnational Nazism
Unpacking hegemony
What We Talk About When We Talk About Soft Power
Revolutionary Ideals and International Aggression
Liberalism and Its Alternatives, Again
Ideational and Material Forces in Threat Perception
Anarchy and Authority
Conflict Externalization and the Quest for Peace
Authoritarian Sponsorship of Weak States
State preferences, viable alternatives, and American covert action, 1946-1989
Discourse wars and ‘mask diplomacy
Disinformation in international politics
High valuations, uncertainty, and war
The growing divide
Framing conflicts in digital and transnational media environments
An institutional political economy view on Thomas Nagel's ‘minimum humanitarian morality’ in global justice
Globalisation and public policy
Sino-Russian cooperation against liberal hegemony
Do Democracies Support Violent Non-governmental Organizations Less Than Autocracies Do
Ikenberry, international relations theory, and the rise of China
Strategic partnerships and China’s diplomacy in Europe
Tangled up in rose? Theories of alliance entrapment and the 2008 Russo-Georgian War
Religion and state entanglement and interstate armed conflict initiation, 1990–2010
Measuring state security relationships
Causes of Foreign-Imposed Regime Change
Explaining US unilateral military intervention in civil conflicts
Historicising intervention
Making sense of survival
Intervention and the ordering of the modern world
The past, present, and future of intervention
The Untold History of the United Nations, the US State Department, and Organized Interests in the Postwar Era
Wave blockers
When the Zionist Idea Came to Beirut
Democratic Peace and Covert Military Force
Stasis or Decay? Reconciling Covert War and the Democratic Peace
International Influences and Democratic Regression in Interwar Europe
The Arab Spring
Democratic Waves in Historical Perspective
The endurance of the G77 in international relations
Debating the Democratic Peace in the International System
Gulliver Unleashed? International Order, Restraint, and The Case of Ancient Athens
Ideological Topography in World Politics
From Shocks to Waves
Regional autocratic linkage and regime survival
Internationalized regimes
US hegemony and regime change in Latin America
The problem with autocracy promotion
Exporting autocrat’s playbook? Diverging impacts of China and Russia on contemporary democratic backsliding
Improving Governance from the Outside In
The Influence of Religion on Interstate Armed Conflict
Hegemonía estadounidense y cambio de régimen en América Latina
Gill, Interrupted
Mearsheimer, Putin, ideology, and the war in Ukraine
Bad influence
When does America drop dictators
Searching for a “China model” along the Belt and Road
The Fall and Rise of Peace Treaties
Perceptions and Misperceptions of Regime Stability and Iran's Convoluted Rise to Regional Influence
International politics by other means
Ideology and armed conflict
The two swords
Elite Competition, Religiosity, and Anti-Americanism in the Islamic World
| Unique citing works | 71 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4,73 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2025 (15) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 67 |