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  • 7 - Where Would We Be without the Fog Lifting in Austerlitz?

  • from Part I - The Imperial Past and Present in International Politics and IR
  • Edited by Klaus Schlichte, Universität Bremen, Stephan Stetter, Universität der Bundeswehr München
  • Book:
    The Historicity of International Politics
    Published online:
    29 June 2023
    Print publication:
    13 July 2023, pp 138-156

  • Summary

    The chapter looks at the long-term structural importance associated with Napoleon’s win in Austerlitz and the ensuing formal end of the Holy Roman Empire. It defines modes of transformation but rather as evolutionary dynamics that pave the way for historical trajectories in which new social forms – such as European global empires or even the notion of global empire – borrow from previous forms, such as the way of organizing political authority in the Holy Roman Empire. In doing so, it identifies two pertinent modes of historicity, namely the presence of several temporal layers in social and political phenomena (‘complex temporalities’), as well as an evolutionary account of non-linear change. In this sense, the chapter is not only about the presence of a specific past in the contemporary structures of the system of world politics, but also to provide a methodological input into contemporary debates about global historical sociology.