The World Imagined Collective Beliefs and Political Order in the Sinocentric, Islamic and Southeast Asian International Societies
Book contents
- The World Imagined
- LSE International Studies
- The World Imagined
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- A Note on Transliteration
- 1 Introduction
- Part I Beyond the Westphalian Gaze
- Part II The East Asian Sino-centric Order
- Part III The Islamic Cultural–Historical Community
- Part IV Collective Imagination among the Polities of Southeast Asia
- Bibliography
- Index
1 - Introduction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 June 2020
Book contents
- The World Imagined
- LSE International Studies
- The World Imagined
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- A Note on Transliteration
- 1 Introduction
- Part I Beyond the Westphalian Gaze
- Part II The East Asian Sino-centric Order
- Part III The Islamic Cultural–Historical Community
- Part IV Collective Imagination among the Polities of Southeast Asia
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Early modern international societies beyond Europe were based on shared sets of beliefs that differed dramatically from Western views regarding the nature of the material and social world. However, the encounter of the West with non-European international societies was not an encounter between two rigidly defined static systems. Instead, both Western and non-Western polities redefined their identities as well as the political-social expression of those identities in the dyadic encounter.
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- The World ImaginedCollective Beliefs and Political Order in the Sinocentric, Islamic and Southeast Asian International Societies, pp. 1 - 12Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020