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Nineteenth Century America in the Society of States Reluctant Power
This book examines how the United States adopted and contributed to the practices of international society—the habits and practices states use to regulate their relations—during the nineteenth century. Expert contributors consider America’s "entry" into international society and how independence forced it to enter into diplomatic relations with European states and start a permanent engagement with a society of states. Individual chapters focus on U.S. perceptions of the international order and its place within it, the U.S. position on international issues of that period, and how America’s perceptions and positions affected or were affected by the habits, practices, and institutions of international society. This volume will serve as an invaluable text for undergraduate courses focusing on international relations theory and U.S. foreign policy. It will also appeal to established scholars in international relations, diplomacy, and international history and historical sociology.
- The United States in the Nineteenth Century International Society: An Introduction
- 19th century America’s Role in Global History
- The American Founding and the Society of States
- America and the Other Revolutions: Neutrality and Non-engagement in Latin America and Greece
- The United States, the Monroe Doctrine and International Society
- Slaves, Indians, and European Legal Formalism in 19th Century America
- The United States inside 'British International Society’: Imperial Rivalries and Compatibilities
- The United States and the Liberal Transformation of International Society: The Institution of Sovereignty
- Wheaton’s Elements and the Expansion of International Society
- America and the rise of Arbitration as an Institution of International Society: American and British Treaties from 1783-1871
- The United States as a Great Power: The Long Road to the Nineteenth-Century Acceptance of Rank
- Constituting the Long 19th Century: the United States and the Primary Institutions of International Society
Yannis Stivachtis
Cornelia Navari
David C. Hendrickson
Yannis Stivachtis
Paul Sharp
Christopher R. Rossi
Daniel M. Green
Mikulas Fabry
Cornelia Navari
Mary Durfee
David Clinton
Barry Buzan and Richard Little
Biography
Cornelia Navari, formerly Associate Professor at the University of Birmingham, UK, is Visiting Professor at the University of Buckingham, UK. She has edited International Society: The English School for the EISA Pivot Series (2021), International Organization in the Anarchical Society (2019), and Power Transition in the Anarchical Society (2022) with Tonny Brems Knudson. She edited Progressivism and American Foreign Policy between the World Wars with Molly Cochran (2017). Her latest monograph is The International Society Tradition (2021).
Yannis A. Stivachtis is Professor of Political Science at Virginia Tech. His publications include The Enlargement of International Society (1998), World Society in English School Theory (2018, editor), Interrogating Regional International Societies, Questioning the Global International Society (2015, editor), EUrope and the World (2012, editor), Regional International Society in a Post-Enlargement Europe (2011, co-editor), International Order in a Globalizing World (2007, editor), and Understanding European Union’s Mediterranean Enlargement: The English School and the Expansion of Regional International Societies (2002, co-editor).
