Culture and Context in World Politics

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
Preface and Acknowledgements......Page 10
1 Introduction......Page 14
Identity and political community......Page 16
Culture and civilization......Page 19
A note on theory and methodology......Page 25
2 World Politics and the Cultural Turn......Page 30
The cultural turn......Page 31
Constructivist social theory......Page 34
After the Cold War......Page 39
Culture and the study of world politics......Page 41
The idea of contextualism......Page 49
Historical and cultural contextualism......Page 52
Contextualism and normative international theory......Page 57
Contextualizing contextualism......Page 63
4 Culture and the Emergence of the Human Sciences......Page 71
The age of discoveries......Page 72
Explaining difference......Page 74
The organization of knowledge......Page 81
Knowledge and method......Page 85
Humanism meets anthropology......Page 91
Race and racism......Page 98
From universalism to relativism......Page 103
Hermeneutics and its critics......Page 110
6 History, Culture and the National State......Page 116
Nations and nationalism......Page 117
State and nation......Page 120
Culture and nature......Page 127
History and nationalism......Page 130
7 Conceptualizing Culture in Political Studies......Page 138
The foundations of world politics......Page 139
State identity and national character......Page 144
The move to political culture......Page 149
Contesting democracy......Page 155
8 Contextualizing Cultural Politics......Page 160
The new Asianism......Page 161
The cultural politics of Asian democracy......Page 164
Interpreting Confucius......Page 168
Democracy and cultural/political pluralism......Page 172
9 Beyond Dichotomies in World Politics......Page 178
A conjunction of dichotomies......Page 179
Insiders v outsiders......Page 186
Contours of a cosmopolitan pluralism......Page 192
Notes......Page 200
Bibliography......Page 236
A......Page 263
C......Page 264
D......Page 266
E......Page 267
H......Page 268
I......Page 269
L......Page 270
M......Page 271
P......Page 272
R......Page 273
S......Page 274
V......Page 275
Z......Page 276