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Barry Buzan's Making Global Society: A Study of Humanking Across Three Eras is a big and an ambitious book. In this volume he tells us the story of 50,000 years of humankind by constructing a "world history" (p. xi) with the social structure of humankind as its object of study. In doing so, Buzan has undertaken two main tasks.
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Intro -- Contents -- 1 The Significance of Regional Analyses -- References -- 2 The Case for Comparative Regional Analysis in International Politics -- 2.1 A Brief Look at the Literature -- 2.1.1 Where to From Here? -- 2.2 Delineating Regions -- 2.3 A Theoretical Framework -- 2.4 A Theoretical Bet -- 2.4.1 A Short Propositional Inventory -- 2.4.2 How Competitive is the Power Environment? -- 2.4.3 How Extensive are the Fault Lines to be Managed? -- 2.4.4 When are Regional Powers Capable and Willing to Create Regional Order? -- 2.5 Conclusion -- Appendix 1: List of Regional Categories Used in Quantitative Studies of Conflict and Cooperation -- Appendix 2: States, Regions, and Border States, 2001-2010 -- Appendix 3: Changes in European Regions, Shown by Decades, 1950-1980 -- References -- 3 Borders, Rivalry, Democracy, and Conflict in the European Region, 1816-1994 -- 3.1 The Gibler Argument -- 3.2 Threat, Democracy, and Conflict -- 3.3 Methodology -- 3.4 Results -- 3.5 Conclusion -- References -- 4 In Search of Super Asia -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Whither Super Asia? -- 4.3 British India, Qing China, and Strategic Asia -- 4.4 Rise of Japan and World War II -- 4.5 Evaluating Region-ness in the Post-World War II Era -- 4.6 The Early Cold War -- 4.7 Regional Fragmentation and the Cold War -- 4.8 Re-emergence of Super Asia Following the Cold War -- 4.9 Conclusions: Looking Forward -- References -- 5 Is There a Central Asia and Does It Matter? -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Background on Regional Subsystems -- 5.3 Structural Approaches -- 5.4 Research Design and State Visits Data -- 5.4.1 Data Restrictions -- 5.5 Empirical Findings and Analysis -- 5.5.1 Highly Interactive Subsystem (Model I) -- 5.5.2 Fragmented Regional Subsystem (Model II) -- 5.5.3 Russia-centered Subsystem (Model III) -- 5.6 Concluding Thoughts -- References.