From hierarchy to anarchy: territory and politics before Westphalia

This book considers the rise of territoriality in international relations. Larkins takes the reader on a tour that moves from the mental horizons of Medieval European thought to the Renaissance. The end product is a theoretical and historical account of a momentous transformation that ultimately gives rise to the territorial state. INDICE: Territoriality, Westphalia and International Relations - International Relations, Political Theory and the Territorial State - Theorising Territoriality: Discourse, Culture, History - Hierarchy, Order and Space in the Medieval World - Christendom, Hierarchy and Medieval Political Discourse - The Renaissance Critique of Hierarchy - Machiavelli, Territoriality and Lo Stato - Picturing Renaissance Territoriality - The Renaissance Territorialisation of International Society

• ISBN: 978-0-230-61671-4
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 284
• Fecha Publicación: 10/02/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés