The Myth of 1648: Class, Geopolitics, and the Making of Modern International RelationsVerso, 2003 - 308 páginas The Treaty of Westphalia in 1648 is widely interpreted as the foundation of modern international relations. Benno Teschke exposes this as a myth. In the process he provides a fresh re-interpretation of the making of modern international relations from the eighth to the eighteenth century. Inspired by the groundbreaking historical work of Robert Brenner, Teschke argues that social property relations provide the key to unlocking the changing meaning of international across the medieval, early modern, and modern periods. He traces how the long-term interaction of class conflict, economic development, and international rivalry effected the formation of the modern system of states. Yet instead of identifying a breakthrough to interstate modernity in the so-called long sixteenth century or in the period of intensified geopolitical competition during the seventeenth century, Teschke shows that geopolitics remained governed by dynastic and absolutist political communities, rooted in feudal property regimes. The Myth of 1648 argues that the onset of specifically modern international relations only began with the conjunction of the rise of capitalism and modern state-formation in England. Thereafter, the English model caused the restructuring of the old regimes of the Continent. This was a long-term process of socially uneven development, not completed until World War I. |
Conteúdo
Introduction | 1 |
The Core Theoretical Argument | 7 |
Structure of the Argument | 8 |
Origins and Evolution of the Modern StatesSystem The Debate in International Relations Theory | 13 |
2 Structural Neorealism | 14 |
3 Historicizing Realism | 16 |
Undermining Westphalia Reinstating Anarchy | 26 |
4 Historicizing Constructivism | 27 |
2 A Critique of the Commercialization Model | 137 |
Solutions and Problems | 139 |
2 Capitalism and the Modern State | 142 |
3 Capitalism and the Modern StatesSystem | 144 |
LEtat cest moi The Logic of Absolutist State Formation | 151 |
Transition or NonTransition? | 153 |
2 The Revisionist SocietyCentred Critique | 155 |
The EquilibristTransitional Paradigm | 157 |
Property Rights Epistemes Contingency | 28 |
5 NeoEvolutionary Historical Sociology | 32 |
6 NeoMarxist IR Theory | 39 |
Towards a New Theory of the Making of Modern International Relations | 42 |
A Theory of Geopolitical Relations in the European Middle Ages | 46 |
2 The Relation between the Economic and the Political in Feudal Society | 49 |
2 From the Logic of Production to the Logic of Exploitation | 53 |
3 The StructureAgent Problem in Feudal Terms | 57 |
2 Contradictory Strategies of Reproduction Agency | 59 |
3 A Culture of War based upon Political Accumulation | 61 |
2 The Political Economy of Medieval Territory and Frontiers | 65 |
Mediaeval Feuding as Legal Redress | 67 |
Beyond Anarchy and Hierarchy | 69 |
1 Banal Domestic and Landlordship | 70 |
Geopolitical Systems as Social Systems | 73 |
The Medieval Making of a MultiActor Europe | 76 |
2 The Carolingian Empire | 80 |
2 Frankish Dual Social Property Relations | 81 |
3 Frankish Political Accumulation | 83 |
3 Explaining the Transition from Imperial Hierarchy to Feudal Anarchy | 84 |
2 The Feudal Revolution of the Year 1000 and the Rise of the Banal Regime | 86 |
4 A New Mode of Exploitation | 88 |
2 Military Innovations and the Origins of the Knightly Class | 89 |
3 Changes in Noble Proprietary Consciousness and the Making of Noble Excess Cadets | 90 |
4 Conquest of Nature Conquest of People | 91 |
5 PostCrisis Feudal Expansion as Geopolitical Accumulation Eleventh to Fourteenth Centuries | 95 |
Socially Combined and Geographically Uneven Development | 97 |
2 The Spanish Reconquista | 99 |
3 The German Ostsiedlung | 101 |
4 The Papal Revolution and the Crusades | 102 |
5 The Norman Conquest and Unitary English State Formation | 104 |
from the Capetian Domain State to Royal Consolidation | 107 |
The Medieval Making of a MultiActor Europe | 109 |
Transitions and NonTransitions to Modernity A Critique of Rival Paradigms | 116 |
2 The Geopolitical Competition Model | 117 |
1 The Military Logic of State Formation | 118 |
Theoretical Pluralism Historical Contingencies | 121 |
2 Modernity? Which Modernity? A Critique of the Geopolitical Competition Model | 122 |
3 The Demographic Model | 127 |
4 The Commercialization Model | 129 |
Westphalia under Dutch Hegemony | 133 |
Excursus Perry Andersons Subterranean Transition to Capitalism | 158 |
4 Political Marxists and the Critique of the Bourgeois Paradigm | 165 |
3 The Development and Nature of French Absolutism | 167 |
1 The Transition from Feudalism to Absolutism | 168 |
2 Absolutist Sovereignty as Proprietary Kingship | 171 |
3 Office Venality as Alienation of State Property | 173 |
4 Political Institutions in Early Modern France | 177 |
5 Legibus Solutus? | 179 |
6 The Costs and Consequences of War | 181 |
7 The Military Constitution of the Old Regime | 184 |
The Modernizing Limits of Absolutism | 189 |
The EarlyModern International Political Economy Mercantilism and Maritime EmpireBuilding | 197 |
Mercantilism as Commercial Capitalism | 198 |
3 The Class Character of SeaBorne Trade and its Geopolitical Implications | 201 |
4 Did Mercantilism Promote Capitalism? | 205 |
Uniform Economic Territories? | 209 |
The Wealth of the State versus the Wealth of the Nation | 210 |
Demystifying the Westphalian StatesSystem | 215 |
2 Structure and Agency in the Westphalian Order | 218 |
The Absolutist State Property Relations and Economic NonDevelopment | 219 |
Political and Geopolitical Strategies of Accumulation | 220 |
Foreign Policy as Dynastic Family Business | 222 |
Parity or Ranking? | 223 |
Dynastic Unions and Wars of Succession | 225 |
3 Dynastic Rules of Succession as Public International Law | 227 |
4 Circulating Territories Circulating Princes | 230 |
5 Dynastic Predatory Equilibrium and the Balance of Power | 233 |
Balancing or Compensatory Equilibrium? | 236 |
6 Demystifying the Peace of Westphalia | 238 |
2 Restoration versus Modernity | 239 |
3 Dynastic Collective Security System versus the Balance of Power | 243 |
The End of 1648 | 245 |
Towards the Modern StatesSystem International Relations from Absolutism to Capitalism | 249 |
2 The Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism in England | 250 |
3 The Glorious Revolution and Modern Sovereignty | 252 |
Capitalism Modern Sovereignty and Active Balancing | 256 |
5 Geopolitically Combined and Socially Uneven Development | 262 |
The Dialectic of International Relations | 271 |
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