Tag: sovereignty

H-Diplo|RJISSF Roundtable 15-3 on Zarkol, Before the West

By Victoria Tin-bor Hui, Ali Balcı,Filippo Costa Buranelli, Ryan D. Griffiths, Jelena Subotic, Ayşe Zarakol

 I have the honor to introduce this roundtable on Ayşe Zarakol’s Before the West: The Rise and Fall of Eastern World Orders, a book that challenges International Relation’s (IR) Eurocentric focus on Westphalia as the beginning of International Relations by foregrounding the “Chinggisid sovereignty model.” According to Zarakol, the Mongol leader Genghis Khan’s world conquest…

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H-Diplo|RJISSF 14-21 on Martin, The Meddlers

By Adom Getachew, Eric Helleiner, Vanessa Ogle, Quinn Slobodian, Christy Thornton

Despite the best revisionist historiography of the past decade, there remains a particularly stubborn origins story about institutions of international economic governance.[1] In this account, the Bretton Woods systems inaugurated an unprecedented era of governing the global economy. Its heyday is associated with a period of embedded liberalism, which sought to combine the liberalization of…

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