{"product_id":"9781526154385","title":"The ideal river","description":"Author: Joanne Yao\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781526154385\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Manchester University Press\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 08 Mar 2022\u003cbr\u003ePages: 272 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis book examines the geographical imaginaries that underpinned international efforts to create the first international organisations along the Rhine, Danube, and Congo Rivers. In doing so, these imaginaries helped constitute the early international order in the nineteenth century and continues to underpin modern global governance today.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEnvironmental politics has traditionally been a peripheral concern for international relations theory, but increasing alarm over global environmental challenges has elevated international society's relationship with the natural world into the theoretical limelight. IR theory's engagement with environmental politics, however, has largely focused on interstate cooperation in the late twentieth century, with less attention to how the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century quest to tame nature came to shape the modern international order.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe ideal river examines nineteenth-century efforts to establish international commissions on three transboundary rivers - the Rhine, the Danube, and the Congo. It charts how the Enlightenment ambition to tame the natural world, and human nature itself, became an international standard for rational and civilised authority and informed our geographical imagination of the international. This relationship of domination over nature shaped three core IR concepts central to the emergence of early international order: the territorial sovereign state; imperial hierarchies; and international organisations. The book contributes to environmental politics and international relations by highlighting how the relationship between society and nature is not a peripheral concern, but one at the heart of international politics.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47920511320222,"sku":"ING-9781526154385","price":183.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781526154385.jpg?v=1782822593","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781526154385","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}