The social evolution of international politics /Shiping Tang

By: Shiping TangContributor(s): Shiping TangMaterial type: TextTextPublisher number: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P)Ltd. | ;7/22,Ansari Road,Darya Ganj,New Delhi-110002Publication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2013Description: viii, 281 pages ; 24 cmISBN: 9780198753582Subject(s): Social SciencesGenre/Form: Political sociologyDDC classification: 320.01 TAN
Contents:
Part I. Preparing the ground. Introduction: why an evolutionary approach toward IR? -- 1. From biological evolution to social evolution -- Part II. The systematic transformation of international politics. 2. Paradise Lost and paradigm gained: the making of the offensive realism world -- 3. From Mearsheimer to Jervis -- 4. A more rule-based international system unfolding -- Part III. Implications and conclusion. 5. International politics as an evolutionary system.
Summary: Deploying an original 'Social Evolution Paradigm' (SEP) and drawing from anthropology, evolutionary biology, and international relations, this book advances a sweeping account of the systemic transformation of international politics. More specifically, the book shows how the nasty and brutish Hobbesian/offensive realism world many of us take for granted had evolved from an Eden-like paradise; how the Hobbesian world had self-transformed into a more peaceful defensive realism world from 1648 to 1945; and how some regions of the post-1945 world have become more rule-based and peaceful. The book critically engages with all the key grand theories of international politics and provides neat solutions to some of the 'great debates' between those theories, from offensive realism to defensive realism, neoliberalism, the English School, and constructivism. This book is essential reading for scholars and students of international politics and of interest to those working in anthropology, sociology, political science, and social sciences in genera
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Part I. Preparing the ground. Introduction: why an evolutionary approach toward IR? --
1. From biological evolution to social evolution --
Part II. The systematic transformation of international politics. 2. Paradise Lost and paradigm gained: the making of the offensive realism world --
3. From Mearsheimer to Jervis --
4. A more rule-based international system unfolding --
Part III. Implications and conclusion. 5. International politics as an evolutionary system.

Deploying an original 'Social Evolution Paradigm' (SEP) and drawing from anthropology, evolutionary biology, and international relations, this book advances a sweeping account of the systemic transformation of international politics. More specifically, the book shows how the nasty and brutish Hobbesian/offensive realism world many of us take for granted had evolved from an Eden-like paradise; how the Hobbesian world had self-transformed into a more peaceful defensive realism world from 1648 to 1945; and how some regions of the post-1945 world have become more rule-based and peaceful. The book critically engages with all the key grand theories of international politics and provides neat solutions to some of the 'great debates' between those theories, from offensive realism to defensive realism, neoliberalism, the English School, and constructivism. This book is essential reading for scholars and students of international politics and of interest to those working in anthropology, sociology, political science, and social sciences in genera

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