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Rule in International Politics

Christopher Daase editor Nicole Deitelhoff editor Antonia Witt editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:29th Jun '23

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Demonstrates how rule is not only a feature of order in states, but also in the international realm.

What forms of rule exist in international politics, how do they work, and what consequences do they have for our understanding? This volume assembles world leading International Relations scholars to demonstrate the ruled character of international politics and explains how IR students can study it.There is hardly any aspect of social, political, and economic life today that is not also governed internationally. Drawing on debates around hierarchy, hegemony, and authority in international politics, this volume takes the study of the international 'beyond anarchy' a step further by establishing the concept of rule as the defining feature of order in the international realm. The contributors argue that the manifold conceptual approaches to sub- and superordination in the international should be understood as rich conceptualizations of one concept: rule. Rule allows constellations of sub- and superordination in the international to be seen as multiplex, systemic, and normatively ambiguous phenomena that need to be studied in the context of their interplay and consequences. This volume draws on a variety of conceptualizations of rule, exploring, in particular, the practices of rule as well as the relational and dynamic characteristics of rule in international politics.

'This ambitious volume offers a powerful and timely analysis of rule in world politics, integrating and extending theoretical debates on authority, hierarchy, and legitimacy. It brings together a group of top-notch IR theorists to help us understand the manifold shapes of rule in international relations - and why they are increasingly contested.' Jonas Tallberg, Stockholm University

ISBN: 9781009307710

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm

Weight: 583g

280 pages