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This volume provides the first major study of worldviews in international relations. Worldviews are the unexamined, pre-theoretical foundations of the approaches with which we understand and navigate the world. Advances in twentieth century physics and cosmology and other intellectual developments questioning anthropocentrism have fostered the articulation of alternative worldviews that rival conventional Newtonian humanism and its assumption that the world is constituted by controllable risks. This matters for coming to terms with the uncertainties that are an indelible part of many spheres of life including public health, the environment, finance, security and politics – uncertainties that are concealed by the conventional presumption that the world is governed only by risk. The confluence of risk and uncertainty requires an awareness of alternative worldviews, alerts us to possible intersections between humanist Newtonianism and hyper-humanist Post-Newtonianism, and reminds us of the relevance of science, religion and moral values in world politics.

This volume provides the first major study of worldviews in international relations. Worldviews are the unexamined, pre-theoretical foundations of the approaches with which we understand and navigate the world. Advances in twentieth century physics and cosmology and other intellectual developments questioning anthropocentrism have fostered the articulation of alternative worldviews that rival conventional Newtonian humanism and its assumption that the world is constituted by controllable risks. This matters for coming to terms with the uncertainties that are an indelible part of many spheres of life including public health, the environment, finance, security and politics - uncertainties that are concealed by the conventional presumption that the world is governed only by risk. The confluence of risk and uncertainty requires an awareness of alternative worldviews, alerts us to possible intersections between humanist Newtonianism and hyper-humanist Post-Newtonianism, and reminds us of the relevance of science, religion and moral values in world politics.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- 1. United Germany in an Integrating Europe / Katzenstein, Peter J. -- 2. Shaping the Rules? The Constitutive Politics of the European Union and German Power / Bulmer, Simon J. -- 3. Hard Interests, Soft Power, and Germany's Changing Role in Europe / Anderson, Jeffrey J. -- 4. Placed in Europe: The Low Countries and Germany in the European Union / Kurzer, Paulette -- 5. Moving at Different Speeds: Spain and Greece in the European Union / Marks, Michael P. -- 6. Pulling in Different Directions: The Europeanization of Scandinavian Political Economies / Ingebritsen, Christine -- 7· Returning to Europe: Central Europe between Internationalization and Instiltutionalization / Anioł, Włodek / Brzica, Daneš / Byrnes, Timothy A. / Gedeon, Péter / Jeřábek, Hynek / Katzenstein, Peter / Poláčková, Zuzana / Samson, Ivo / Zich, František -- 8. The Smaller European States, Germany and Europe / Katzenstein, Peter J. -- Index

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- 1. Japanese Security -- 2. Institutionalism, Realism, and Liberalism -- 3. Norms and the Japanese State -- 4. The Police and Internal Security -- 5. The Self-Defense Forces and External Security -- 6. The U.S.-Japan Relationship -- 7. Japan and Germany -- 8. Political Transformations, Past and Future -- Notes -- References -- Index

China's rise and processes of Sinicization suggest that recombination of new and old elements rather than a total rupture with or return to the past is China's likely future. In both space and time, civilizational politics offers the broadest social context. It is of particular salience in China. Reification of civilizations into simple categories such as East and West is widespread in everyday politics and common in policy and academic writings. This book's emphasis on Sinicization as a specific instance of civilizational processes counters political and intellectual shortcuts and corrects the mistakes to which they often lead. Sinicization illustrates that like other civilizations China has always been open to variegated social and political processes that have brought together many different kinds of peoples adhering to very different kinds of practices. This book tries to avoid the reifications and celebrations that mark much of the contemporary public debate about China's rise. It highlights instead complex processes and political practices bridging East and West that avoid easy shortcuts. The analytical perspectives of this book are laid out in Katzenstein's opening and concluding chapters. They are explored in six outstanding case studies, written by widely known authors, which over questions of security, political economy and culture.

Small States in World Markets -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Flexible Adjustment in the Small European States -- 3. Democratic Corporatism and Its Variants -- 4. The Historical Origins of Democratic Corporatism -- 5. Conclusion -- Notes -- Index.

1. The West as Anglo-America / Peter J. Katzenstein -- 2. The project for a new Anglo century : race, space, and global order / Duncan Bell -- 3. Anglo-America as global suburbia : the political economy of land and endogenous multiculturalism / Herman Schwartz -- 4. The imperial self : a perspective on Anglo-America from South Africa, India, and Ireland / Audie Klotz -- 5. The search for liberal Anglo-America : from racial supremacy to multicultural politics / Srdjan Vucetic -- 6. Negotiating Anglo-America : Australia, Canada, and the United States / Louis W. Pauly and Chris Reus-Smit -- 7. Diplomatic cultures : multiple wests and identities in US-Canada and US-Mexico relations / Brian Bow and Arturo Santa-Cruz -- 8. Special relationships : Australia and New Zealand in the Anglo-American world / David MacDonald and Brendon O'Connor -- 9. Many wests and polymorphic globalism / Peter J. Katzenstein.

Anglo-America is a clearly identifiable part of what is commonly referred to as the West. The West exists, this book argues, in the form of multiple traditions that have currency in America, Europe, the Americas, and a few outposts in the Southern hemisphere. Led by the British Empire until the beginning and by the United States since the middle of the twentieth century, Anglo-America has been at the very centre of world politics. Bridging the European and the American West, Anglo-America is distinctive, not unique. These multiple Wests coexist with each other and with other civilizations, as parts of one global civilization containing multiple modernities. And like all other civilizations, Anglo-America is marked by multiple traditions and internal pluralism. Once deeply held notions and practices of imperial rule and racial hierarchy now take the form of hegemony or multilateralism and politically contested versions of multiculturalism. At its core Anglo-America is fluid, not fixed. The analytical perspectives of this book are laid out in Katzenstein's opening and concluding chapters. They are explored in seven outstanding case studies, written by widely known authors, which combine historical and contemporary perspectives. Featuring an exceptional line-up and representing a diversity of theoretical views within one integrative perspective, this work will be of interest to all scholars and students of international relations, sociology and political science.

A highly original and readily accessible examination of the cultural dimension of international politics, this book provides a sophisticated and nuanced account of the relevance of cultural categories for the analysis of world politics.