Exemplarity in Global Politics - Paperback

by Dorothy Noyes (Editor), Tobias Wille (Editor)

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.

Author Biography

Dorothy Noyes is College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of English and Director of the Mershon Center for International Security Studies at the Ohio State University.

Tobias Wille is Assistant Professor of International Security in the Department of Political Science at Goethe University Frankfurt and John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow at Harvard University's Center for European Studies.