BUZAN:INTERNATIONAL SYSTEMS WORLD HISTORY PAPER: Remaking the Study of International Relations

by Barry Buzan, Richard Little

This book tells the story of mankind's evolution from a scattering of hunter-gatherer bands to today's integrated global international political economy. Seeking to emulate and challenge the cross-disciplinary influence of the world systems model, the book recasts the study of international relations into a macro-historical perspective, shows how its core concepts work across time, and sets out a new theoretical agenda and a new intellectual role for the discipline.

Genres: International Relations, Political Science, Nonfiction

473 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 2000

About the author

Barry Buzan is Emeritus Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science (formerly Montague Burton Professor), and honorary professor at Copenhagen and Jilin Universities. In 1998 he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy. He has written, co-authored or edited over twenty books, written or co-authored more than one hundred and thirty articles and chapters, and lectured, broadcast or presented papers in over twenty countries. Among his books are: People, States and Fear: The National Security Problem in International Relations (1983, revised 2nd edition 1991); The Logic of Anarchy: Neorealism to Structural Realism (1993, with Charles Jones and Richard Little); Security: A New Framework for Analysis (1998, with Ole Wæver and Jaap de Wilde); International Systems in World History: Remaking the Study of International Relations (2000, with Richard Little); Regions and Powers: The Structure of International Security (2003, with Ole Wæver); From International to World Society? English School Theory and the Social Structure of Globalisation (2004); The Evolution of International Security Studies (2009, with Lene Hansen) and Non-Western International Relations Theory (2010, co-edited with Amitav Acharya). Work in progress includes The Global Transformation: The 19th Century and the Making of Modern International Relations (2013, with George Lawson).

Reviews

[Sana · Rating 1 out of 5]

This textbook hurt my soul and single-handedly caused me to switch majors. Do not recommend

[Emma · Rating 2 out of 5]

These dudes really wrote 500 pages of fluff. If they took out all the unnecessary words that make themselves sound eloquent, it'd be half the size and bearable to read. The content is solid, and I did learn quite a bit. Some parts are even interesting, but wow, some sentences just NEVER end. I found one sentence that was /four lines long/ for absolutely no reason. It's like they were trying to fit every word in the thesaurus into one sentence instead of actually making the sentence coherent.

Also, bold of them to cite their own works? Damn, the confidence...

[Alyssa Ramos · Rating 1 out of 5]

this book was awful. the authors overused commas, and to be honest i wanted to slam my head against the wall every time i read it. maybe if it had an enemies to lovers plot line, i’d be more interested

[Rhesa · Rating 4 out of 5]

By employing historical perspective to read world's politics, this book is like a theoretical "experiment" to [re:]-allign IR theories with the body of social science. Though by doing so, it jeopardizes & blur the best kept distinction between IR & international history and hence minimize it's "distinct uniqueness", but it really breaks new ground on IR static discourses. A work of methodology, difficult but a rewarding one.

[Gary Klein · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book started off as a decent read, but further into the book it got drier. It is a decent primar into IR, so I'll keep it for a reference as it pertains to IR terminology, but it's not something I'd necessary recommend to others. A better narrative introduction into IR is Guns, Germs, and Steel.

[Tyar]

the lack of the world in modernism era has became the new problem of international system being a good system in fast growing people in technology and science