Culture and Context in World Politics

This wide-ranging, historically informed study examines the career of the culture concept and related notions of context in comparative and international politics, tracing connections through the disciplines of anthropology and history as well as through issues in nationalism and democracy. Particular attention is paid to the way in which culture as context is implicated in some of the most problematic dichotomies in world politics, as well as to how culture may be re-conceptualized in a theory of cosmopolitan pluralism.

Stephanie Lawson is at the School of Political, Social and International Studies, University of East Anglia.

Preface and Acknowledgements	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Identity and political community	p. 3
Culture and civilization	p. 6
A note on theory and methodology	p. 12
World Politics and the Cultural Turn	p. 17
The cultural turn	p. 18
Constructivist social theory	p. 21
After the Cold War	p. 26
Culture and the study of world politics	p. 28
Context and Contextualism	p. 36
The idea of contextualism	p. 36
Historical and cultural contextualism	p. 39
Contextualism and normative international theory	p. 44
Contextualizing contextualism	p. 50
Culture and the Emergence of the Human Sciences	p. 58
The age of discoveries	p. 59
Explaining difference	p. 61
The organization of knowledge	p. 68
Knowledge and method	p. 72
Culture/s: Conceptualization and Theorization	p. 78
Humanism meets anthropology	p. 78
Race and racism	p. 85
From universalism to relativism	p. 90
Hermeneutics and its critics	p. 97
History, Culture and the National State	p. 103
Nations and nationalism	p. 104
State and nation	p. 107
Culture and nature	p. 114
History and nationalism	p. 117
Conceptualizing Culture in Political Studies	p. 125
The foundations of world politics	p. 126
State identity and national character	p. 131
The move to political culture	p. 136
Contesting democracy	p. 142
Contextualizing Cultural Politics	p. 147
The new Asianism	p. 148
The cultural politics of Asian democracy	p. 151
Interpreting Confucius	p. 155
Democracy and cultural/political pluralism	p. 159
Beyond Dichotomies in World Politics	p. 165
A conjunction of dichotomies	p. 166
Insiders v outsiders	p. 173
Contours of a cosmopolitan pluralism	p. 179
Notes	p. 187
Bibliography	p. 223
Index	p. 250
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