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By Andrew Phillips

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ISBN-13: 9781107084834

Diplomacy students quite often count on political groups to resemble each other the extra they're uncovered to pressures of battle, monetary festival and the unfold of hegemonic legitimacy criteria. in spite of the fact that, traditionally it's heterogeneity, now not homogeneity, that has in general outlined overseas structures. interpreting the Indian Ocean quarter - the centre of early smooth globalization - Andrew Phillips and J. C. Sharman clarify how various overseas platforms can emerge and suffer. Divergent personal tastes for terrestrial as opposed to maritime conquest, congruent traditions of heteronomy and shared ideas of localization have been components which enabled diversified actors together with the Portuguese Estado da India, Dutch and English corporation sovereigns and effective Asian empires to co-exist for hundreds of years with no converging on a standard institutional shape. Debunking the presumed courting among interplay and homogenization, this booklet substantially revises traditional pondering at the evolution of foreign structures, whereas deepening our figuring out of a traditionally the most important yet significantly understudied global zone.

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J. M. Owen IV, The Clash of Ideas in World Politics: Transnational Networks, States, and Regime Change, 1510–2010 (Princeton University Press, 2010); and D. Philpott, Revolutions in Sovereignty: How Ideas Shaped Modern International Relations (Princeton University Press, 2001). Philpott, Revolutions in Sovereignty. 1 Interaction capacity and unit convergence in mainstream International Relations theories Theoretical tradition Expected outcome of increased Overarching interaction logic capacity Type of social interaction Mechanism of promoting convergence convergence Realism Competition Convergence Convergence through elimination Military competition Rationalism Competition Convergence Convergence through rational emulation Economic interaction (especially increased trade) Sociological Conformity Convergence Convergence institutionalism through socialization Spread of common standards of legitimacy Constructivism Conformity Convergence Convergence through socialization Spread of common standards of legitimacy these models foreground processes of socialization and mimicry to produce institutional convergence.

Our third and final task prior to presenting a synoptic survey of the Indian Ocean in the final section is to clearly explain what we mean by the concept of international system, and to justify its post-1500 application to the Indian Ocean. 55 But other realist works do hint at the possibility of diversity. Realism presumes that military competition should produce convergence over time, as ‘losing’ polity forms are culled and ‘winning’ polity forms diffuse throughout an international system. The crucial caveat in this causal sequence is ‘over time’.

1 2 3 4 B. R. Posen, ‘Nationalism, the Mass Army, and Military Power’, International Security 18:2 (1993), pp. 80–124. K. Waltz, Theory of International Politics (New York: McGraw Hill, 1979), p. 118. J. Resende-Santos, Neorealism, States, and the Modern Mass Army (Cambridge University Press, 2007), p. 6. T. M. Fazal, State Death: The Politics and Geography of Conquest, Occupation and Annexation (Princeton University Press, 2007), pp. 60–1. 8 This realist mechanism of competition constitutes what Hendrik Spruyt has dubbed a ‘strong form selection perspective’ on international politics: ‘Such selection .

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