The Global Transformation Buzan Lawson Hardback Cambridge University Press

The Global TransformationHistory, Modernity and the Making of International Relations\nAuthor(s): Barry Buzan, George Lawson\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781107035577, 978-1107035577\nSynopsis\nThe 'long nineteenth century' [tel] was a period of political, economic, military and cultural revolutions that re-forged both domestic and international societies. Neither existing international histories nor international relations texts sufficiently register the scale and impact of this 'global transformation', yet it is the consequences of these multiple revolutions that provide the material and ideational foundations of modern international relations. Global modernity reconstituted the mode of power that underpinned international order and opened a power gap between those who harnessed the revolutions of modernity and those who were denied access to them. This gap dominated international relations .