The Roman Predicament: How the Rules of International Order Create the Politics of EmpirePrinceton University Press, 2006 - 166 стор. Modern America owes the Roman Empire for more than gladiator movies and the architecture of the nation's Capitol. It can also thank the ancient republic for some helpful lessons in globalization. So argues economic historian Harold James in this masterful work of intellectual history. The book addresses what James terms "the Roman dilemma"--the paradoxical notion that while global society depends on a system of rules for building peace and prosperity, this system inevitably leads to domestic clashes, international rivalry, and even wars. As it did in ancient Rome, James argues, a rule-based world order eventually subverts and destroys itself, creating the need for imperial action. The result is a continuous fluctuation between pacification and the breakdown of domestic order. James summons this argument, first put forth more than two centuries ago in Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations and Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, to put current events into perspective. The world now finds itself staggering between a set of internationally negotiated trading rules and exchange--rate regimes, and the enforcement practiced by a sometimes-imperial America. These two forces--liberal international order and empire--will one day feed on each other to create a shakeup in global relations, James predicts. To reinforce his point, he invokes the familiar bon mot once applied to the British Empire: "When Britain could not rule the waves, it waived the rules." Despite the pessimistic prognostications of Smith and Gibbon, who saw no way out of this dilemma, James ends his book on a less depressing note. He includes a chapter on one possible way in which the world could resolve the Roman Predicament--by opting for a global system based on values as opposed to rules. |
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... tradition , but scholars working according to this division are missing the complexities of a world in which minds shift continually from one area of concern to another , and in which poli- cies are made in the light of such shifts ...
... traditional idea of power : the appar- ently attractive idea that there might be a way of breaking out of the ... tradition of thinking about order , as part of a natural law basis for a global society . Might this offer a way out ...
... tradition seeks to overcome is the dependence of alternative visions on examinations of the processes involved in rule rather than the under- lying moral and ethical basis . A discussion of values , rather than debate over procedures ...
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The Model of Decline and Fall | 6 |
Mercury and Mars | 24 |
The Questioning of Rules in an Obscure and Irregular System | 39 |
Can It Last? | 71 |
The Victory of Mars | 86 |
Terminus Beyond the Fringe | 99 |
The Holy Roman Empire and the Roman Empire | 118 |
Conclusion | 141 |
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