1st Edition

Nineteenth Century America in the Society of States Reluctant Power

Edited By Cornelia Navari, Yannis A. Stivachtis Copyright 2024
260 Pages
by Routledge

260 Pages
by Routledge

260 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more
  1. The United States in the Nineteenth Century International Society: An Introduction
  2. Yannis Stivachtis

  3. 19th century America’s Role in Global History
  4. Cornelia Navari

  5. The American Founding and the Society of States
  6. David C. Hendrickson

  7. America and the Other Revolutions: Neutrality and Non-engagement in Latin America and Greece
  8. Yannis Stivachtis

  9. The United States, the Monroe Doctrine and International Society
  10. Paul Sharp

  11. Slaves, Indians, and European Legal Formalism in 19th Century America
  12. Christopher R. Rossi

  13. The United States inside 'British International Society’: Imperial Rivalries and Compatibilities
  14. Daniel M. Green

  15. The United States and the Liberal Transformation of International Society: The Institution of Sovereignty
  16. Mikulas Fabry

  17. Wheaton’s Elements and the Expansion of International Society
  18. Cornelia Navari

  19. America and the rise of Arbitration as an Institution of International Society: American and British Treaties from 1783-1871
  20. Mary Durfee

  21. The United States as a Great Power: The Long Road to the Nineteenth-Century Acceptance of Rank
  22. David Clinton

  23. Constituting the Long 19th Century: the United States and the Primary Institutions of International Society

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).