1. Cf.: S. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996) and Political Order in Changing Societies (Yale University Press, 1968).
2. Cf.: A. Watson, The Evolution of International Society (London: Routledge, 1992); H. Bull and A. Watson, (eds) The Expansion of International Society (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984); B. Buzan and R. Little, ‘Reconceptualizing Anarchy: Structural Realism Meets History’, European Journal of International Relations, 1996, 4: 403–38; J. Charvet, ‘The Idea of an International Ethical Order’, Studies in Political Thought, 1992, 1: 59–72. All these ‘concentric’ images of world order are conceptualized on the margins of the English School by J. Der Derian in his On Diplomacy: A Genealogy of Western Estrangement (London: Blackwell, 1987) and R. Epp, ‘The English School on the Frontiers of International Society: A Hermeneutic Recollection’, Review of International Studies, 1998, Special Issue: 47–63.
3. R. Cox, ‘Thinking about civilizations’, Review of International Studies, 2000: 217–34.
4. R. Lipschutz, ‘Politics Among People: Global Civil Society Reconsidered’, in H.H. Hobbs (ed.) Pondering Postinternationalism: A Paradigm for the Twenty-First Century (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000): 94.
5. K. Waltz, Theory of International Politics (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1979): 80.