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International relations and culture. --- World politics --- Culture and international relations --- Culture --- FPEÑAS

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This book examines the role of civilizations in the context of the existing and possible world orders from a cross-cultural perspective. Seeking to clarify the meaning of such complex and contested notions as "civilization," "order," and "world order," it takes into account political, economic, cultural, and philosophical dimensions of social life.

International order --- International relations and culture --- Civilization, Modern --- Geopolitics. --- World politics --- Culture and international relations --- Culture --- Philosophy.

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"The Limits of Culture explores the effect of culture on foreign policy, focusing on countries in the geopolitically important Caspian region and paying particular attention to those states that have identified themselves as Islamic republics: Iran, Taliban Afghanistan, and Pakistan."--Jacket.

International relations and culture. --- Islamic countries --- Foreign relations. --- Culture and international relations --- Muslim countries --- Culture --- SOCIAL SCIENCES/Political Science/International Relations & Security

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This book focusses on Russia’s cultural statecraft in dealing with a number of institutional cultural domains such as education, museums and monuments, high arts and sport. It analyses to what extent Russia’s cultural activities abroad have been used for foreign policy purposes, and perceived as having a political dimension.Building on the concept of cultural statecraft, the authors present a broad and nuanced view of how Russia sees the role of culture in its external relations, how this shapes the image of Russia, and the ways in which this cultural statecraft is received by foreign audiences. The expert team of contributors consider: what choices are made in fostering this agenda; how Russian state authorities see the purpose and limits of various cultural instruments; to what extent can the authorities shape these instruments; what domains have received more attention and become more politicised and what fields have remained more autonomous. The methodological research design of the book as a whole is a comparative case study comparing the nature of Russian cultural statecraft across time, target countries and diverse cultural domains.It will be of interest to scholars and students of Russian foreign policy and external relations and those working on the role of culture in world politics.

Cultural diplomacy --- International relations and culture --- Politics and culture --- Culture --- Culture and politics --- Culture and international relations --- Cultural relations --- Diplomacy --- Political aspects --- Politics and government

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This book seeks to explain why different systems of sovereign states have built different types of fundamental institutions to govern interstate relations. Why, for example, did the ancient Greeks operate a successful system of third-party arbitration, while international society today rests on a combination of international law and multilateral diplomacy? Why did the city-states of Renaissance Italy develop a system of oratorical diplomacy, while the states of absolutist Europe relied on naturalist international law and "old diplomacy"? Conventional explanations of basic institutional practices have difficulty accounting for such variation. Christian Reus-Smit addresses this problem by presenting an alternative, "constructivist" theory of international institutional development, one that emphasizes the relationship between the social identity of the state and the nature and origin of basic institutional practices. Reus-Smit argues that international societies are shaped by deep constitutional structures that are based on prevailing beliefs about the moral purpose of the state, the organizing principle of sovereignty, and the norm of procedural justice. These structures inform the imaginations of institutional architects as they develop and adjust institutional arrangements between states. As he shows with detailed reference to ancient Greece, Renaissance Italy, absolutist Europe, and the modern world, different cultural and historical contexts lead to profoundly different constitutional structures and institutional practices. The first major study of its kind, this book is a significant addition to our theoretical and empirical understanding of international relations, past and present.

Social ethics --- Political philosophy. Social philosophy --- International relations. Foreign policy --- International relations and culture --- International relations --- Moral and ethical aspects --- International relations and culture. --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Culture and international relations --- Culture --- International relations - Moral and ethical aspects