Bridging the gap between international relations and comparative politics, this book transposes Eurocentric theories and narratives of state-making to new histo

This is an introduction for academics, students, and poltical analysts to some of the latest trends in the study and state of culture and international history:

Provides a new historical account of the rise and spread of the modern international system.

In 1991 the Soviet empire collapsed, at a stroke throwing the certainties of the Cold War world into flux. Yet despite the dramatic end of this 'last empire', t

How would the history of international relations in 'the East' be written if we did not always read the ending – the Rise of the West and the decline of the E