Political Science Faculty Publications
Title
Representing civilization: Solidarism, ornamentalism, and Siam’s entry into international society
Document Type
Article
Abstract
Although norms are important in various schools of international relations theory, there has been relatively little effort to integrate their various uses of the term. Here I seek to bring together the Constructivist use of norms based on individual human agency with the English School's concept of solidarism. This perspective helps make sense of the expansion of international society, a point demonstrated through a study of the apparently anomalous case of Siam, which achieved sovereignty without developing significant military power. Siamese elites were able to gain inclusion in international society by enacting solidarism with European conceptions of 'civilized' behavior and using European conceptions of class to trump preconceptions about race.
Copyright Statement
Post-print
Repository Citation
Englehart, Neil A., "Representing civilization: Solidarism, ornamentalism, and Siam’s entry into international society" (2010). Political Science Faculty Publications. 46.
https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/poli_sci_pub/46
Publication Date
9-2010
Publication Title
European Journal of International Relations
Publisher
SAGE Publications
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1177/1354066109350050
Start Page No.
417
End Page No.
439