Culture and Context in World Politics - Annotated by Stephanie Lawson (Hardcover)

About the Book

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.

Book Synopsis

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.

About the Author

STEPHANIE LAWSON is Professor of International Relations at the University of East Anglia, UK. She has previously taught and researched at the University of New England and the Australian National University. She is the author or editor of six books and numerous articles and book chapters spanning the fields of comparative and international politics.