Corry, Olaf
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| DOI (Digital Object Identifier) Link: | http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1017/S0260210510000975 |
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Abstract
Despite sustained theoretical and empirical criticism of ‘statism’, a recognisable model of political structure other of hierarchy and anarchy (the models that underpin the state system-model) has long been lacking. Even many proponents of radical transformation of the international system often remain ‘post-international’, describing world politics essentially in terms of complications to the international system. This article agrees that a new point of departure is needed but offers a different model of political structure by redefining the term ‘polity’ – a term which is increasingly used to capture non-territorial political entities neither constituted by hierarchy nor by the lack of it. With the new definition building on Waltz’s theory of theory as a ‘picture, mentally formed’ in order to simplify a domain, a polity is deemed to exist when a set of subjects are oriented towards a common ‘governance-object’. The new polity model is applied illustratively to the idea of a global polity and a new polity research agenda of international relations is suggested.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| Copyright Holders: | 2010 British International Studies Association |
| ISSN: | 1469-9044 |
| Academic Unit/Department: | Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies |
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| Item ID: | 31078 |
| Depositing User: | Olaf Corry |
| Date Deposited: | 11 Jan 2012 09:35 |
| Last Modified: | 26 Oct 2012 22:45 |
| URI: | http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/31078 |
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