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Chan, Stephen (2018) 'No More “Local” Insurrection or Terrorism: The Dark Side of the Cobweb.' Global Society, 32 (2). pp. 149-161.

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Abstract

World Society was the leitmotif of John Groom. It was a pluralist vision of International Relations set against Realism and state hegemonies. In this, it sought to establish an enhanced pluralism, citizen organisation and action, as a norm. It was a prescient forerunner of what we now commonly recognise as international civil society. Groom’s other resonant work on third-party and Track II mediation—citizen agency and intervention on behalf of norms of shared needs and equality—was an expression of that. However, all this took place within the context of an interlinked world system described as a cobweb. Not only did this model fail to predict the spiders and slaughter in today’s cobweb, it shared an Enlightenment view of civil society as secular. This paper talks about religious spiders and the sort of atrocious but anti-hegemonic pluralism that is now vexatiously glued to all we do internationally. However, the paper recognises that, reconfigured, Groom’s work laid first foundations for today’s International Relations.

Item Type: Journal Article
SOAS Departments & Centres: Departments and Subunits > Department of Politics & International Studies
ISSN: 13600826
DOI (Digital Object Identifier): https://doi.org/10.1080/13600826.2018.1433131
Date Deposited: 20 Aug 2018 08:46
URI: https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/id/eprint/26290

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