"Property" and the Making of the International System / / Kurt Burch.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Lynne Rienner Press Complete Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Burch, Kurt,
• Place / Publishing House: Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2023]; ©1998
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Critical Perspectives on World Politics
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (195 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Acknowledgments --; 1 Introduction --; Part 1 Property as a Principle --; 2 Property as a Constitutive Principle --; 3 Specifying Property as a Constitutive Principle in Seventeenth-Century England --; Part 2 Property and Practices --; 4 Jurisprudents --; 5 The Agents of Statecraft --; 6 The Agents of Commerce --; Part 3 Property and Constitution --; 7 Constituting Sovereignty, Political Economy, and a Modern Worldview --; 8 Conclusions and Implications --; Bibliography --; Index --; About the Book --; Other Books in the Series
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781685858247; 9783110784268
• DOI: 10.1515/9781685858247
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Kurt Burch.

This original work considers the emergence of the modern international system—that is, the global social context framing the diverse behaviors called international relations—in terms of the concepts of property and property rights. Burch argues that the development of "property" is a crucial aspect of contemporary claims about the modern state, sovereignty, international law, state conflict, global political economy, and the world system as a whole. By investigating a concept, rather than a specific social condition, activity, or actor, he explores the socially shared understandings and meanings that inform individuals' outlooks and behaviors. It is these changing meanings and consequent behaviors, he demonstrates, that actually "make" the international system.