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The Domestic Analogy and World Order Proposals

By Hidemi Suganami

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1989
ISBN
9780511598807, 0521343410, 0521055059, 0511598807, 9780521055055, 9780521343411
LCC
JX1954 .S85 1989
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
1 MB (1514221 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Studies in International Relations
Pages
246\246
Topic
Education
DPI
300
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

This contribution to the history of ideas examines how best to organize the world. It covers the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, bringing the study of the history of ideas about the world order up to date. The author analyzes a large number of proposals for world order, peace, justice, and welfare, and explains the distinctive features of these proposals historically. The central organizing concept of the book is what is known to specialists in international relations as the "domestic analogy": the idea that interstate relations are amenable to the same type of institutional control as the relations of individuals and groups within the state. From such an idea sprang the League of Nations, the United Nations and its agencies, and many international institutions including the EEC. The book examines how this particular mode of reasoning about international relations has evolved against changing historical backgrounds.

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