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dc.contributor.authorPhillips, A
dc.contributor.authorSharman, JC
dc.date.accessioned2020-08-06T06:25:36Z
dc.date.available2020-08-06T06:25:36Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.identifier.issn1354-0661
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/1354066120928127
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/396268
dc.description.abstractWe investigate the nature and significance of the vital but neglected “company-states” in helping to facilitate the move from contained regional international systems to the first genuinely global international system. Historically, actors like the Dutch and English East India Companies were crucial in spearheading the first wave of European expansion in Asia, Africa, and the Americas. Conceptually, company-states broaden our understanding of international actors. At a time when intra-European politics favored gradual institutional convergence on the sovereign state, the demands of extra-European expansion meanwhile gave rise to diverse competing institutions. Company-states succeeded in an era of weak sovereign states because of their relative efficiency in managing the transaction costs and principal-agent challenges of intercontinental trade and rule. Conversely, company-states later declined as they succumbed to the effects of sharpening worldwide geopolitical competition, and were displaced by increasingly powerful new European empire-building projects. This argument advances earlier work on the creation of the international system by eschewing Eurocentrism and state-centrism, and foregrounding diversity and hybridization.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherSage Publications Ltd
dc.relation.ispartofjournalEuropean Journal of International Relations
dc.subject.fieldofresearchPolicy and administration
dc.subject.fieldofresearchPolitical science
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4407
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4408
dc.titleCompany-states and the creation of the global international system
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dcterms.bibliographicCitationPhillips, A; Sharman, JC, Company-states and the creation of the global international system, European Journal of International Relations, 2020
dcterms.licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
dc.date.updated2020-08-06T06:18:53Z
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