{"product_id":"the-idea-of-civilization-and-the-making-of-the-global-order-9781529213874","title":"The Idea of Civilization and the Making of the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe idea of civilization recurs frequently in reflections on international politics. However, International Relations academic writings on civilization have failed to acknowledge the major 20th-century analysis that examined the processes through which Europeans came to regard themselves as uniquely civilized – Norbert Elias’s On the Process of Civilization. This book provides a comprehensive exploration of the significance of Elias’s reflections on civilization for International Relations. It explains the working principles of an Eliasian, or process-sociological, approach to civilization and the global order and demonstrates how the interdependencies between state-formation, colonialism and an emergent international society shaped the European 'civilizing process'.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: A Process-Sociological Approach to Understanding Civilization The Return of Discourses of Civilization and Barbarism Elias’s Explanation of the European Civilizing Process The Nation-State, War and Human Equality The Classical European ‘Standard of Civilization’ Civilization, Diplomacy and the Enlargement of International Society Standards of Civilization in the Post-European Global Order Civilizing Processes at the Level of Humanity as a Whole Summary and Conclusions","brand":"Bristol University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409916371287,"sku":"9781529213874","price":75.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781529213874.jpg?v=1730508425","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-idea-of-civilization-and-the-making-of-the-global-order-9781529213874","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}