TY - BOOK AU - Teschke, Benno AU - Teschke, Benno TI - The Myth of 1648: : class, geopolitics, and the making of modern international relation SN - 9781844673728 U1 - 940 TES PY - 2003/// CY - New York PB - : Verso, KW - History KW - History of Europe KW - State, The -- History KW - Feudalism -- Europe -- History KW - Europe -- Politics and government -- 1492-1648 KW - Europe -- Conditions sociales -- 17e siècle KW - Feudalism KW - Europe KW - International relations -- History KW - Relations internationales KW - Influence Literary, artistic, N1 - 1. Origins and Evolution of the Modern States-System: The Debate in International Relations Theory -- 1. Introduction: From Structure to History -- 2. Structural Neorealism -- 3. Historicizing Realism -- 4. Historicizing Constructivism -- 5. Neo-Evolutionary Historical Sociology -- 6. Neo-Marxist IR Theory -- 7. Conclusion: Towards a New Theory of the Making of Modern International Relations -- 2. Theory of Geopolitical Relations in the European Middle Ages -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Relation between the Economic and the Political in Feudal Society -- 3. Structure-Agent Problem in Feudal Terms -- 4. Phenomenology of Medieval 'International' Institutions -- 5. Feudal 'International Systems': Beyond Anarchy and Hierarchy -- 6. Conclusion: Geopolitical Systems as Social Systems -- 3. Medieval Making of a Multi-Actor Europe -- 1. Introduction: From Hierarchy to Anarchy -- 2. Carolingian Empire -- 3. Explaining the Transition from Imperial Hierarchy to Feudal Anarchy 84 -- 4. New Mode of Exploitation -- 5. Post-Crisis Feudal Expansion as Geopolitical Accumulation (Eleventh to Fourteenth Centuries) -- 6. Conclusion: The Medieval Making of a Multi-Actor Europe -- 4. Transitions and Non-Transitions to Modernity: A Critique of Rival Paradigms -- 1. Introduction: The Rise of the West? -- 2. Geopolitical Competition Model -- 3. Demographic Model -- 4. Commercialization Model -- 5. Capitalism, the Modern State, and the Modern States-System: Solutions and Problems -- 5. L'Etat, c'est moil: The Logic of Absolutist State Formation -- 1. Introduction: Idealizing Absolutism -- 2. Debating Absolutism: Transition or Non-Transition? -- 3. Development and Nature of French Absolutism -- 4. Conclusion: The Modernizing Limits of Absolutism -- 6. Early Modern International Political Economy: Mercantilism and Maritime Empire-Building -- 1. Introduction: The 'Long Sixteenth Century' and Mercantilism -- 2. Theoretical Premises: Mercantilism as Commercial Capitalism -- 3. Class Characters of Sea-Borne Trade and its Geopolitical Implications -- 4. Did Mercantilism Promote Capitalism? -- 5. Closed Trading States: Uniform Economic Territories? -- 6. Conclusion: The 'Wealth of the State' versus the 'Wealth of the Nation' -- 7. Demystifying the Westphalian States-System -- 1. Introduction: Theorizing the Constitution, Operation, and Transformation of Geopolitical Systems -- 2. Structure and Agency in the Westphalian Order -- 3. Westphalian Geopolitical Relations: Foreign Policy as Dynastic Family Business -- 4. Circulating Territories, Circulating Princes -- 5. Dynastic Predatory Equilibrium and the Balance of Power -- 6. Demystifying the Peace of Westphalia -- 7. Conclusion: The End of 1648 -- 8. Towards the Modern States-System: International Relations from Absolutism to Capitalism -- 1. Introduction: From 'Structural Discontinuity' to a 'Mixed-Case' Scenario -- 2. Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism in England -- 3. Glorious Revolution and Modern Sovereignty -- 4. British Uniqueness: Capitalism, Modern Sovereignty, and Active Balancing -- 5. Geopolitically Combined and Socially Uneven Development -- Conclusion: The Dialectic of International Relations N2 - The Treaty of Westphalia in 1648 is widely interpreted as the foundation of modern international relations. Benno Teschke exposes this as a myth. In the process he provides a fresh reinterpretation of the making of modern international relations from the eighth to the 18th century ER -