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Andreas Osiander - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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sovereignty international relations and the Westphalian myth
International Organization, 2001Co-Authors: Andreas OsianderAbstract:The 350th anniversary of the Peace of Westphalia in 1998 was largely ignored by the discipline of international relations (IR), despite the fact that it regards that event as the beginning of the international system with which it has traditionally dealt. By contrast, there has recently been much debate about whether the “Westphalian system†is about to end. This debate necessitates, or at least implies, historical comparisons. I contend that IR, unwittingly, in fact judges current trends against the backdrop of a past that is largely imaginary, a product of the nineteenth- and twentieth-century fixation on the concept of sovereignty. I discuss how what I call the ideology of sovereignty has hampered the development of IR theory. I suggest that the historical phenomena I analyze in this article—the Thirty Years' War and the 1648 peace treaties as well as the post–1648 Holy Roman Empire and the European system in which it was embedded—may help us to gain a better understanding of contemporary international politics.
L H M Ling - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Romancing Westphalia: Westphalian IR and Romance of the Three Kingdoms
2014Co-Authors: L H M LingAbstract:We need to re-envision international relations (IR). By framing world politics as a world-ofworlds comprised of multiple, interactive and overlapping regional worlds, we can curb the hegemony of the West through Westphalian IR and stem, if not transform, the “cartographic anxieties” that still beset postcolonial states. Both of these provoke state violence externally and internally. This paper examines an East Asian regional world inflected by the 14th-century Chinese epic, Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Noting its conflicts as well as compatibilities with Westphalian IR, I conclude with the implications of this thought experiment for IR and for world politics in general.
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the dao of world politics towards a post Westphalian worldist international relations
2013Co-Authors: L H M LingAbstract:Introduction Part I - Root: Why do we need a Dao of World Politics 1. The Problem with Westphalia: The Fish and the Turtle 2. Worldism: Multiple Worlds in IR 3. Daoist Dialectics: Gender as Analytic 4. Worldist Dialogics: Changing the Terms of Engagement Interregnum 5. A Fairy Tale of Science Part II - Branch: The Worldist Model of Dialogics 6. Relationality: From Hegemony to Parity 7. Resonance: From Hierarchy to Fluidity 8. Interbeing: From Violence to Ethics with Compassion 9. New World Making: Yin/Yang Pacha (with Carolina M. Pinheiro) Part III - Buds: Towards a Post-Westphalian, Worldist IR 10. Journeys Beyond the West
Turan Kayaoglu - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Westphalian eurocentrism in international relations theory
International Studies Review, 2010Co-Authors: Turan KayaogluAbstract:In the past 10–15 years, an increasing number of revisionist scholars have rejected the most significant elements of the argument about the centrality of the Peace of Westphalia (1648) to the evolution and structure of international society. At the same time, the prominence of this argument has grown in the English School and constructivist international relations scholarship. I deconstruct the function of the Westphalian narrative to explain its pervasiveness and persistence. I argue that it was first developed by nineteenth century imperial international jurists and that the Westphalian narrative perpetuates a Eurocentric bias in international relations theory. This bias maintains that Westphalia created an international society, consolidating a normative divergence between European international relations and the rest of the international system. This dualism is predicated on the assumption that with Westphalia European states had solved the anarchy problem either through cultural or contractual evolution. Non-European states, lacking this European culture and social contract, remained in anarchy until the European states allowed them to join the international society—upon their achievement of the ‘‘standards of civilization.’’ This Westphalian narrative distorts the emergence of the modern international system and leads to misdiagnoses of major problems of contemporary international relations. Furthermore, their commitment to the Westphalian narrative prevents international relations scholars from adequately theorizing about international interdependencies and accommodating global pluralism.
T.l. Phillips - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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consequences of extinction in tropical peat forming vegetation of the middle to late pennsylvanian Westphalian stephanian
Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs; (United States), 1992Co-Authors: William A. Dimichele, T.l. PhillipsAbstract:Peat-forming environments (coals) were major landscape elements of the Pennsylvanian tropics. Mires reached a pantropical zenith during the 9 Ma of the Westphalian when long intervals of similar vegetation were separated by short intervals of rapid change. Differences between successive vegetation types primarily reflect different proportions of several major habitat-specific subfloras within which species turnover occurred. A hierarchy of organizational levels is suggested in which biotic interactions helped structure and constrain patterns of species replacement. Lycopsids were the framework trees of nearly all Westphalian mires; tree ferns and pteridosperm were important subdominants by the late Westphalian. Environmental changes, largely climatic, during the Westphalian-Stephanian transition resulted in extinction of most mire species, particularly trees. Tree ferns dominated Stephanian mires following a short transitional period of small-lycopsid and fern abundance. Tree ferns were cheaply constructed opportunists and their rise in abundance coincided with an increase in species numbers throughout tropical lowlands. Within mires there was an increase in physical size of plants from several major lineages. The structure and dynamics of Stephanian mires differed from the Westphalian; previously sharp distinctions between mires and other lowland floras diminished. The Westphalian to Stephanian vegetational changes suggest that ecosystems can display a brittle'' response tomore » environmental change. Such threshold responses are a likely consequences of levels of extinction high enough to disrupt ecosystem fabric. The success of opportunistic lineages following loss of indigenous mire vegetation constitutes a secondary replacement, with establishment of a new equilibrium within hundreds of thousands of years.« less
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consequences of extinction in tropical peat forming vegetation of the middle to late pennsylvanian Westphalian stephanian
Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs; (United States), 1992Co-Authors: William A. Dimichele, T.l. PhillipsAbstract:Peat-forming environments (coals) were major landscape elements of the Pennsylvanian tropics. Mires reached a pantropical zenith during the 9 Ma of the Westphalian when long intervals of similar vegetation were separated by short intervals of rapid change. Differences between successive vegetation types primarily reflect different proportions of several major habitat-specific subfloras within which species turnover occurred. A hierarchy of organizational levels is suggested in which biotic interactions helped structure and constrain patterns of species replacement. Lycopsids were the framework trees of nearly all Westphalian mires; tree ferns and pteridosperm were important subdominants by the late Westphalian. Environmental changes, largely climatic, during the Westphalian-Stephanian transition resulted in extinction of most mire species, particularly trees. Tree ferns dominated Stephanian mires following a short transitional period of small-lycopsid and fern abundance. Tree ferns were cheaply constructed opportunists and their rise in abundance coincided with an increase in species numbers throughout tropical lowlands. Within mires there was an increase in physical size of plants from several major lineages. The structure and dynamics of Stephanian mires differed from the Westphalian; previously sharp distinctions between mires and other lowland floras diminished. The Westphalian to Stephanian vegetational changes suggest that ecosystems can display a brittle'' response tomore » environmental change. Such threshold responses are a likely consequences of levels of extinction high enough to disrupt ecosystem fabric. The success of opportunistic lineages following loss of indigenous mire vegetation constitutes a secondary replacement, with establishment of a new equilibrium within hundreds of thousands of years.« less
David P. Fidler - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Beyond China: Lessons from SARS for Post-Westphalian Public Health
SARS Governance and the Globalization of Disease, 2004Co-Authors: David P. FidlerAbstract:Although China provides the most dramatic evidence that public health has moved into a post-Westphalian context, the SARS outbreak produced other indications that public health has transitioned into a new governance era. These developments demonstrate that SARS has governance implications that reach beyond China’s handling of SARS. The manner in which SARS was managed globally reveals the emergence of a framework of universal scope affecting all countries, be they weak or powerful. This chapter analyzes four features of the SARS outbreak that support the argument that public health governance has entered a post-Westphalian period.
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SARS and Vulnerabilities of Post-Westphalian Public Health
SARS Governance and the Globalization of Disease, 2004Co-Authors: David P. FidlerAbstract:Reflecting on the experience of handling the SARS epidemic, WHO’s Mike Ryan observed that’ [a] Rubicon has been crossed. There’s no going back now’ (Piller, 2003). As previous chapters illuminated, the SARS outbreak confirms that public health has moved into post-Westphalian governance territory with respect to infectious diseases. The successful management of the global SARS threat provides ample evidence that the governance possibilities in post-Westphalian public health possess exciting potential. Much future work, including the completion of the revision of the International Health Regulations and the establishment of the public-private partnership to fund improvements in national SARS-related surveillance and response capabilities, will focus on exploiting the possibilities revealed dramatically in the SARS crisis.
