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This page intentionally left blank Beyond the Anarchical Society EdwardKeenearguesthatthepopularideaofan‘anarchicalsociety’of equalandindependentsovereignstatesisaninadequatedescriptionof order in modern world politics. International political and legal order hasalwaysbeendedicatedtotwodistinctgoals:ittriestopromotethe tolerationofdifferentwaysoflife,butatthesametimeitpromotesone specific way of life that it labels ‘civilization’. The nineteenth-century solutiontothiscontradictionwastorestrictthepromotionofcivilization totheworldbeyondEurope.Thatdiscriminatorywayofthinkinghas nowbrokendown,withtheresultthatasingle,globalorderissupposed toapplytoeveryone,butthathasleftuswithaninsolubledilemmaas towhattheultimatepurposeofthisglobalordershouldbe,andhowits politicalandlegalstructureshouldbeorganized.  isTutorinPoliticsatBalliolCollege,Oxford,andhas previously taught at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London and at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. With Eivind Hovden he co-edited the journal Millennium, and The Global- ization of Liberalism (2002). He is the author of International Society asanEssentiallyContestedConceptinMichiEbataandBeverlyNeufeld (eds.),ConfrontingthePolitical:InternationalRelationsattheMillennium (2000)andTheReceptionofHugoGrotiusinInternationalRelationsTheory (Grotiana). LSEMONOGRAPHSIN INTERNATIONALSTUDIES PublishedforTheCentreforInternationalStudies, LondonSchoolofEconomicsandPoliticalScience EditorialBoard MargotLight(Chair) IanNish ChristopherGreenwood DavidStephenson MichaelLeifer† AndrewWalter DominicLieven DonaldWatt JamesMayall The Centre for International Studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science was established in 1967. Its aim is topromoteresearchonamulti-disciplinarybasisinthegeneralfieldof internationalstudies. TothisendtheCentreoffersvisitingfellowships,sponsorsresearch projectsandseminarsandendeavourstosecurethepublicationofmanu- scriptsarisingoutofthem. WhilsttheEditorialBoardacceptsresponsibilityforrecommendingthein- clusionofavolumeintheseries,theauthorisaloneresponsibleforviewsand opinionsexpressed. For my parents Beyond the Anarchical Society Grotius, Colonialism and Order in World Politics Edward Keene UniversityofOxford           The Pitt Building, Trumpington Street, Cambridge, United Kingdom    The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge CB2 2RU, UK 40 West 20th Street, New York, NY 10011-4211, USA 477 Williamstown Road, Port Melbourne, VIC 3207, Australia Ruiz de Alarcón 13, 28014 Madrid, Spain Dock House, The Waterfront, Cape Town 8001, South Africa http://www.cambridge.org ©Edward Keene 2004 First published in printed format 2002 ISBN 0-511-02971-3 eBook (Adobe Reader) ISBN 0-521-81031-0 hardback ISBN 0-521-00801-8 paperback Contents Preface pageix Acknowledgements xiii Introduction 1 1 Theorthodoxtheoryoforderinworldpolitics 12 2 TheGrotiantheoryofthelawofnations 40 3 Colonialism,imperialismandextra-European internationalpolitics 60 4 Twopatternsoforderinmodernworldpolitics: tolerationandcivilization 97 5 Orderincontemporaryworldpolitics,globalbutdivided 120 Conclusion 145 Bibliography 151 Index 162 vii

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This page intentionally left blank Beyond the Anarchical Society EdwardKeenearguesthatthepopularideaofan‘anarchicalsociety’of equalandindependentsovereignstatesisaninadequatedescriptionof order in modern world politics. International political and legal order hasalwaysbeendedicatedtotwodistinctgoals:ittriestopromotethe tolerationofdifferentwaysoflife,butatthesametimeitpromotesone specific way of life that it labels ‘civilization’. The nineteenth-century solutiontothiscontradictionwastorestrictthepromotionofcivilization totheworldbeyondEurope.Thatdiscriminatorywayofthinkinghas nowbrokendown,withtheresultthatasingle,globalorderissupposed toapplytoeveryone,butthathasleftuswithaninsolubledilemmaas towhattheultimatepurposeofthisglobalordershouldbe,andhowits politicalandlegalstructureshouldbeorganized.  isTutorinPoliticsatBalliolCollege,Oxford,andhas previously taught at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London and at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. With Eivind Hovden he co-edited the journal Millennium, and The Global- ization of Liberalism (2002). He is the author of International Society asanEssentiallyContestedConceptinMichiEbataandBeverlyNeufeld (eds.),ConfrontingthePolitical:InternationalRelationsattheMillennium (2000)andTheReceptionofHugoGrotiusinInternationalRelationsTheory (Grotiana). LSEMONOGRAPHSIN INTERNATIONALSTUDIES PublishedforTheCentreforInternationalStudies, LondonSchoolofEconomicsandPoliticalScience EditorialBoard MargotLight(Chair) IanNish ChristopherGreenwood DavidStephenson MichaelLeifer† AndrewWalter DominicLieven DonaldWatt JamesMayall The Centre for International Studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science was established in 1967. Its aim is topromoteresearchonamulti-disciplinarybasisinthegeneralfieldof internationalstudies. TothisendtheCentreoffersvisitingfellowships,sponsorsresearch projectsandseminarsandendeavourstosecurethepublicationofmanu- scriptsarisingoutofthem. WhilsttheEditorialBoardacceptsresponsibilityforrecommendingthein- clusionofavolumeintheseries,theauthorisaloneresponsibleforviewsand opinionsexpressed. For my parents Beyond the Anarchical Society Grotius, Colonialism and Order in World Politics Edward Keene UniversityofOxford           The Pitt Building, Trumpington Street, Cambridge, United Kingdom    The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge CB2 2RU, UK 40 West 20th Street, New York, NY 10011-4211, USA 477 Williamstown Road, Port Melbourne, VIC 3207, Australia Ruiz de Alarcón 13, 28014 Madrid, Spain Dock House, The Waterfront, Cape Town 8001, South Africa http://www.cambridge.org ©Edward Keene 2004 First published in printed format 2002 ISBN 0-511-02971-3 eBook (Adobe Reader) ISBN 0-521-81031-0 hardback ISBN 0-521-00801-8 paperback Contents Preface pageix Acknowledgements xiii Introduction 1 1 Theorthodoxtheoryoforderinworldpolitics 12 2 TheGrotiantheoryofthelawofnations 40 3 Colonialism,imperialismandextra-European internationalpolitics 60 4 Twopatternsoforderinmodernworldpolitics: tolerationandcivilization 97 5 Orderincontemporaryworldpolitics,globalbutdivided 120 Conclusion 145 Bibliography 151 Index 162 vii

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