The Global Transformation
Critical reflections on the historical sociology of the long nineteenth century
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4301052 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Luke Cooper (0000-0003-2060-1498, Anglia Ruskin University England UK) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2018-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Historical Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0952-1909 • E-ISSN: 1467-6443 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/johs.12159 |
| OpenAlex | W2735610202 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 24 |
George Lawson and Barry Buzan's The Global Transformation advances the claim that International Relations (IR) has mistakenly overlooked the Long Nineteenth Century as a transformative era. They argue this period saw a shift in the mode of power, i.e. how power was utilised and expressed, and not merely a change in how it was distributed amongst competing political entities. The following offers a sympathetic critique of their theoretical claims. Highlighting the role of geopolitics and the societal changes of the public sphere, the article argues that the historical sociological method utilised by these authors is 'neither realist nor liberal enough
Aesthetics · Epistemology · Geopolitics · George (robot · Historical sociology · Mode (computer interface · Period (music · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Public sphere · Social science · Sociology · Transformative learning · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Religion and Society Interactions · History · Law · Philosophy
How the West Came to Rule
The Global Transformation
The Eastern Origins of Western Civilisation
Metahistory
The empire of civil society
The separation of the ‘economic’ and the ‘political’ in capitalism
Recasting Iranian Modernity
The uses and misuses of uneven and combined development
Basic problems in the theory of uneven and combined development. Part II
What’s at Stake in the Transition Debate? Rethinking the Origins of Capitalism and the ‘Rise of the West’
What’s at Stake in the Neo-Trotskyist Debate? Towards a Non-Eurocentric Historical Sociology of Uneven and Combined Development
Structural Realism after the Cold War
Capodistrias and a "New Order" for Restoration Europe
Can contingency be ‘internalized’ into the bounds of theory? Critical realism, the philosophy of internal relations and the solution of ‘uneven and combined development
Normative’ power Europe
Redeeming the universal
Imagined communities
Territoriality and beyond
Anarchy is what states make of it
Why is There No International Historical Sociology
The poverty of neorealism
The Global Transformation
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |