{"product_id":"the-ideal-river-how-control-of-nature-shaped-the-international-order-9781526178701","title":"The Ideal River: How Control of Nature Shaped the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe environment has traditionally been a marginal concern in international relations, but the climate crisis has highlighted the relationship between society and the natural world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In \u003ci\u003eThe ideal river\u003c\/i\u003e, Joanne Yao offers a remarkable account of how nineteenth-century efforts to tame nature shaped our modern international order. Examining three historic attempts to establish international commissions on boundary-crossing rivers – the Rhine, the Danube and the Congo – she reveals how the Enlightenment ambition to subdue the natural world has formed our geographical imagination of the international.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This idea of domination over nature shaped three concepts central to the emergence of early international order: the territorial sovereign state, imperial hierarchies and international organisations. As \u003ci\u003eThe ideal river \u003c\/i\u003eshows, the relationship between society and nature is at the heart of international politics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'This is a brilliant book: erudite, thoughtful, beautifully written, richly analysed and theoretically sophisticated. It makes us look again at the way control of rivers – as nature, as resource, as colonial or territorial space – has shaped so many international doctrines, institutions and contestations.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLaleh Khalili, author of \u003ci\u003eSinews of War and Trade\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'The book persuasively demonstrates how environmental politics can enrich our understanding of international organisations more generally.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eStefan Döring, \u003ci\u003eInternational Affairs\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e -- .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: the ideal river\u003cbr\u003e1 The taming of nature, legitimate authority and international order\u003cbr\u003e2 Taming the internal highway: constructing the Rhine\u003cbr\u003e3 The 1815 Congress of Vienna and the oldest continuous interstate institution\u003cbr\u003e4 Disciplining the connecting river: constructing the Danube\u003cbr\u003e5 The 1856 Treaty of Paris and the first international organisation\u003cbr\u003e6 Civilising the imperial river: constructing the Congo\u003cbr\u003e7 The 1885 Berlin Conference and the international organisation that never was\u003cbr\u003e8 History is a river: the taming of nature into the twenty-first century\u003cbr\u003eConclusion: the strong brown god of the Anthropocene\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041046724951,"sku":"9781526178701","price":23.84,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781526178701.jpg?v=1750948734","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-ideal-river-how-control-of-nature-shaped-the-international-order-9781526178701","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}