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Transcript of Civilizations in World Politics: Beyond East and West Peter Katzenstein Cornell University.
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Introduction Civilizational Analysis Sinicization Conclusion
President and Professor
Hu Jintao and Huntington: East vs. West
Liu Weibing/Xinhua, Via Associated Press Jeff Christensen/AFP/Getty Images, Via Foreign Policy
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Introduction Civilizational Analysis Sinicization Conclusion
President and Professor
• Civilizations – Are combative and clashing or
plural and pluralist– Defined by core values or
multiple traditions– Cultural realism: plural not
pluralist– Cosmopolitan liberalism:
pluralist not plural • Korea between Civilizations
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Huntington’s Map of Civilizations
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GIC: Above the Nation State
• Globalization (reconfigure state sovereignty)– Glocalization and constitutive norms/processes
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GIC: Above the Nation State
• Internationalization (increase social density)– Varieties of capitalism and regulatory norms/processes
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Map of the Internet(Internationalization)
Map of the World Wide Web (Globalization)
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GIC: Above the Nation State
• Civilization (create communities of meanings and practices)– Communities of identities and practices
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Royal Tombs of the Joseon Dynasty© UNESCO
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Civilizational Outcomes
• Intercivilizational Encounters– Violent Clash
Cultural Imperialism: impose content and form– Transcivilizational Engagement
Widespread acceptance: content or form• Hybridization: shifting balances of practice
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Roadmap
• Civilizational Analysis • Sinicization and Civilizational Processes• Anglo-America and Civilizational Identities• Conclusion
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Trilogy Project
Vol. 1-Civilizations in World Politics: Plural and Pluralist
Perspectives
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Civilizational Analysis
• Defined: urban, language, literature, religion
• Embedded: in a larger context or ecumene (William McNeill and Marshall Hodgson)
• Not an actor — but a complex• Not a voice in our head — but a
town hall meeting arguing about our options
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Civilizational Analysis
• Dispositional Analysis — actor oriented, consensual, essentialist, unchanging
• Discursive analysis — processual, contested, relational, malleable
• Primordiality: Disposition and Discourse– Social construct and political project– Other examples: Gender, race, ethnicity, nationality– Crystallization in situations of fear, threat, insecurity
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Civilizational Analysis
• Shmuel Eisenstadt– Placed in one encompassing
civilization of modernity– Multiple modernities
activated by axial age religions (Jaspers)
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Civilizational Analysis
• Randall Collins– Porous zones of prestige– Competition within and between nodes– Long-distance networks
• Norbert Elias– Reversible civilizing processes– Social and psychological restraints– Adapt to international arena
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Civilizational Analysis: Multiplicities not Binaries
• Multiple Actors (empires, states, pooled sovereignty polities, stateless polities, diasporic politics)
• Multiple Actors (coalitions, groups, organizations, individuals)
• Multiple Traditions (and institutions)• Multiple Processes (and relational mechanisms)
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Trilogy Project
Vol. 2 – Sinicization and the Rise of China: Civilizational Processes beyond East and
West
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Sinicization: Meaning
• Making the world suitable to China and Chinese practices (assimilation – conformity – acculturation)
• Milieu goals (A. Wolfers) • “Harmony” vs “hegemony”: interesting diversity
vs. not dull uniformity
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Sinicization: Meaning
• Practices : self-conscious and unreflected– military rise– commercial expansion – multilateralism with a Chinese face
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Sinicization: Three Types
• Resinicization: rupture• Desinicization: imitation• Sinicization (mixed outcome): recombination
http://www.chinasmack.com/2012/stories/hong-kong-says-no-to-mainland-education-chinese-reactions.html
Protests over Chinese patriotic education in Hong Kong
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Sinicization: Recombination
• Security: Sovereignty and suzerainty; unification not an end state but ongoing practices
• Security: Zones not borders; discursive practices then and now
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Sinicization: Recombination
• Political Economy: Compressed development; pre- and post-industrialism
• Culture: Overseas Chinese and Diaspora Politics
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Sinicization Compared
• Japanization and Indianization– Multiple practices– Radiation outward– Incorporation inward– Rising power or not Top: reason.com
Bottom: Peter Macdiarmid / Getty via TIME Magazine
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Trilogy Project
Vol. 3-Anglo-America and Its Discontents: Civilizational
Identities beyond West and East
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Conclusion: Civilization of Modernity
• Two bridge civilizations: Anglo-America and Islam• Anglo-America: vertical practice connections to
the civilization of modernity– English as a lingua franca– Rights revolution– Science and technology (electronic; biotechnology)– Popular culture industries– Enchanting New World (vs. a White Brand)
• Islam: horizontal geographic connections within the civilization of modernity
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Conclusion: Civilization of Modernity
• Thin– Rome (not Athens or Jerusalem):
“transmission culture” (Brague)– Japan’s popular culture industry:
“odorless” (Iwabuchi)– Liberalism’s “thin proceduralism” (Haas)
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Conclusion: Civilization of Modernity
• Demanding– No imperialism of imposing a single standard of
conduct (as in many versions of liberal theory)– No relativism of accepting all political practices (as in
many critiques of liberal theory)
Beyond East and West: Kipling
• Rudyard Kipling’s Ballad of East and West:
“Oh East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meetTill earth and sky stand presently at God’s great Judgment seat…..
But there is neither East nor West, border nor breed nor birthWhen two strong men stand face to face, tho they come from the ends of the earth.”
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Polymorphic Globalism
Searching for Political-Cultural Commenurabilities• At two intersections– Civil religious politics: Intermingling of secular and
religious politics (Bellah)– Transcendental (religion and science) vs historiological
politics (Murakami)
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Conclusion
• Baroque or Gothic • Complexity (of analysis)
or Simplicity (in reduced form)
• The Future: Contaminated cosmopolitanism or recurrent sameness
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Conclusion
• Soft Social Science : Humanities and Imagination and Social Sciences and Information
• Multi- or Interdisciplinary Studies vs. Disciplinary Studies
• Pattern recognition vs variable-based analysis• Vouching vs Clinching Arguments (Nancy
Cartwright)
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Conclusion
• My research agenda• Civilizations in the global ecumene– Adding global process: Human rights and human
welfare– Adding actors (empire, states, polities, diasporas)
• American Civilization and Americanization– Statist issues: Law, public diplomacy– Societal issues: popular culture, religion
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Beyond East and West: Kipling
• Rudyard Kipling’s Ballad of East and West:
“Oh East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meetTill earth and sky stand presently at God’s great Judgment seat…..
But there is neither East nor West, border nor breed nor birthWhen two strong men stand face to face, tho they come from the ends of the earth.”
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