The Social Evolution of International Politics (9780198753582)

Winnner of the International Studies Association Annual Best Book Award.

Deploying an original 'Social Evolution Paradigm' (SEP) and drawing from anthropology, evolutionary biology, and international relations, this book advances a sweeping account of the systemic transformation of international politics. More specifically, the book shows how the nasty and brutish Hobbesian/offensive realism world many of us take for granted had evolved from an Eden-like paradise; how the Hobbesian world had self-transformed into a more peaceful defensive realist world from 1648 to
1945; and how some regions of the post-1945 world have become more rule-based and peaceful. The book critically engages with all the key grand theories of international politics and provides interesting solutions to some of the 'great debates' between those theories, from offensive realism to
defensive realism, neoliberalism, the English School, and constructivism. This book is essential reading for scholars and students of international politics and of interest to those working in anthropology, sociology, political science, and social sciences in general.

Product details

• Format Paperback | 294 pages
• Dimensions 160 x 235 x 16mm | 438g
• Publication date 05 Jan 2016
• Publisher Oxford University Press
• Publication City/Country Oxford, United Kingdom
• Language English
• Edition Statement Reprint
• ISBN10 0198753586
• ISBN13 9780198753582
• Bestsellers rank 1,290,113

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