Scientific Cosmology and International Orders /
Scientific Cosmology and International Orders shows how scientific ideas have transformed international politics since 1550. Allan argues that cosmological concepts arising from Western science made possible the shift from a sixteenth-century order premised upon divine providence to the present orde...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2018.
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in international relations.
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| Online Access: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1737885 |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half title; Series information; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Table of contents; List of figures; List of tables; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: Science and the Transformation of International Politics; Changes in State Purpose; Explaining Change in International Order; Mechanisms and Processes of Change; Linking Micro, Meso, and Macro; The Cosmological Basis of State Purposes; My Theoretical Approach; Rethinking Science in International Relations; The Argument: From Means to Ends; The Plan of the Book; 2 Cosmology and Change in International Orders.
- Explaining International ChangeThe Cosmological Elements of International Order; Micro: The Discursive Contexts of International Order; From the Micro- to the Meso- and Macro-Levels; Meso: Associational Change and the Emergence of New Purposes; The Conditions for Stable Associational Change; Macro: The Recursive Institutionalization of International Order; Pathways of Recursive Institutionalization; Scientific Cosmology and Change in International Order; Cosmological Shifts in Modern European Science; Scientific Ideas and the Conditions for International Change.
- Demonstrating the Argument: Research Design, Methods, and Alternative ExplanationsConclusion; 3 Natural Philosophy in Balance of Power Europe, 1550-1815; Introduction; Cosmology and European Political Discourses, 1550; English and French Discourses, circa 1550; Religious and Aristocratic Discourses in European Order, circa 1550; The Cosmological Shift in Natural Philosophy, 1550-1700; Strategic Deployment: Aristocratic Brokers and Natural Philosophy, 1600-1700; Discursive Reconfigurations: Cosmology and the Balance, 1600-1800; The Rise of Interests, 1630-1713.
- European Discourse in the Treaty of Utrecht, 1713Naturalizing the Balance of Power in the Eighteenth Century; The Cosmological Shift in Political Economic Thought, 1650-1750; Strategic Deployment: Reforming European States, 1700-1800; Cosmology and the Congress of Vienna, 1815; The Discourse of State Purpose at the Congress, 1814-1815; Cosmological Elements at the Congress, 1814-1815; The Statistical Commission and the Final Compromise; Explaining Balance of Power Politics; Conclusion.
- 4 Darwin, Social Knowledge, and Development in the British Colonial Office and the League of Nations, 1850-1945Introduction; The Cosmological Shift in the Historical Sciences, 1750-1850; Laissez-Faire Liberalism and International Colonial Discourse, 1850-1885; British Colonial Discourse, 1850-1885; International Colonial Discourse, 1850-1885; The Cosmological Shift in Social Knowledge, 1885-1945; The Invention of British Anthropology; Social Objects and Expertise; Strategic Deployment: Reforming the Colonial Office, 1895-1930; Importing Expertise.