Exemplarity in Global Politics, livre ebook

• Includes chapters from experts across Europe and North America;

• Examines how political change is claimed and recognized through the power of example, focusing on performance, reception and uptake.

Available open access digitally under CC-BY licence.

How is political change claimed and recognized? How is it attached to actors and transferred between them? This volume gives a new account of a mechanism that is celebrated in liberal discourse but trickier in practice: the performance and uptake of examples.

Bringing together thinkers from different disciplines and places, this book considers the networks of reception and emulation within which a political act can become an example, circulating beyond the bounds of identities, norms, and ideologies. Tracing short- and long-term interactions among aspirational, dissident, and establishment performances, the volume reveals exemplarity to be a shaping force in global politics.

Part I. Introduction

1. Theorizing Exemplarity for Global Politics ~ Dorothy Noyes and Tobias Wille

2. From Performance to Uptake: A Process Model of Exemplarity ~ Dorothy Noyes and Tobias Wille

Part II. Individuals and Inspiration

3. Gandhi’s Exemplarity ~ Ramachandra Guha

4. Tyrannicides, Tyrants, and Emperors: Exemplarity in the Graeco-Roman World ~ Fritz Graf

5. The Child Greta: The Exemplar as Embodied Future ~ Kyrre Kverndokk

Part III. The Complexities of Uptake

6. The Truths of Suffering and Injustice: Confucian Exemplarity in the History of Exemplar-Prisoners ~ Ying Zhang

7. The Exemplary Normativity of International Precedents ~ Christopher Daase and Tobias Wille

8. Exemplarity in Global Resistance: Beyond Epics and Romanticism ~ Iratxe Perea Ozerin

Part IV. Exemplary Orders

9. Exemplarity and Hierarchy ~ Ayşe Zarakol

10. The Violence of the Exemplar: The French Civilizing Mission in French and Algerian Memories, 1918-Present ~ Guillaume Wadia

11. Prototyping Events: Creating Child-Oriented Methods of Disaster Preparedness ~ Chika Watanabe

Part V. Trajectories

12. The Soft Power of a Small Country. Self-Perceptions of the Netherlands as a Model for Europe and the World ~ Robin de Bruin

13. Exemplary Appropriation: Holocaust Remembrance Practices in Post-Communist Europe ~ Jelena Subotić

14. From Exemplarity to Farce? The Career of Cold War Threshold Crossings ~ Dorothy Noyes

Part VI. Thinking with Examples

15. Salient Examples in Flawed Reasoning about International Politics ~ Jack Snyder

16. The Disciplinary Exemplarity of the Concert of Europe ~ Jennifer Mitzen

17. Conclusion: The Fragility and Persistence of Examples ~ Tobias Wille and Dorothy Noyes