The Steppe Tradition in International Relations (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781108420792)

Neumann and Wigen counter Euro-centrism in the study of international relations by providing a full account of political organisation in the Eurasian steppe from the fourth millennium BCE up until the present day. Drawing on a wide range of archaeological and historical secondary sources, alongside social theory, they discuss the pre-history, history and effect of what they name the 'steppe tradition'. Writing from an International Relations perspective, the authors give a full treatment of the steppe tradition's role in early European state formation, as well as explaining how politics in states like Turkey and Russia can be understood as hybridising the steppe tradition with an increasingly dominant European tradition. They show how the steppe tradition's ideas of political leadership, legitimacy and concepts of succession politics can help us to understand the policies and behaviour of such leaders as Putin in Russia and Erdogan in Turkey.

Author: Iver B. Neumann, Einar Wigen
ISBN-10: 1108420796
ISBN-13: 9781108420792
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/06/2018
Pages: 322
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 9.19h x 6.44w x 0.89d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 02/01/2019