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English
Bristol University Press
23 October 2025
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This volume explores a mechanism that is celebrated in liberal discourse but is trickier in practice: the power of example. It addresses the complex interplay of performance, reception and uptake, and provides a transdisciplinary analysis of how exemplarity shapes global politics.
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Imprint:   Bristol University Press
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 234mm,  Width: 156mm, 
ISBN:   9781529248043
ISBN 10:   1529248043
Series:   Bristol Studies in International Theory
Pages:   318
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Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Further / Higher Education ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Part 1: Introduction Introduction: Exemplarity in Global Politics - Dorothy Noyes and Tobias Wille 1. From Performance to Uptake: A Process Model of Exemplarity - Dorothy Noyes and Tobias Wille Part 2: Individuals and Inspiration 2. Gandhi’s Exemplarity - Ramachandra Guha 3. Tyrannicides, Tyrants, and Emperors: Exemplarity in the Graeco-Roman World - Fritz Graf 4. Greta Thunberg: The Child as Vorbild - Kyrre Kverndokk Part 3: The Complexities of Uptake 5. The Truths of Suffering and Injustice: Confucian Exemplarity in the History of Exemplar-Prisoners - Ying Zhang 6. The Exemplary Normativity of International Precedents - Christopher Daase and Tobias Wille 7. Exemplarity in Global Resistance: Beyond Epics and Romanticism - Iratxe Perea Ozerin Part 4: Exemplary Orders 8. Exemplarity and Hierarchy - Ayşe Zarakol 9. The Violence of the Example: The French Civilizing Mission in French and Algerian Memories, 1918-Present - Guillaume Wadia 10. Prototyping Events: Creating Child-Oriented Methods of Disaster Preparedness - Chika Watanabe Part 5: Thinking with Examples 11. Salient Examples in Flawed Reasoning about International Politics - Jack Snyder 12. The Disciplinary Exemplarity of the Concert of Europe - Jennifer Mitzen Part 6: Trajectories 13. The Soft Power of a Small Country: Self-Perceptions of the Netherlands as a Model for Europe and the World - Robin de Bruin 14. Exemplary Appropriation: Holocaust Remembrance Practices in Post-Communist Europe - Jelena Subotic 15. From Exemplarity to Farce? The Career of Cold War Threshold Crossings - Dorothy Noyes

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.

Reviews for Exemplarity in Global Politics

‘We live in a world full of exemplars, but far from an exemplary world, a contradiction that fuels these subtle and richly satisfying analyses of how aspirational models of people and forms might circulate. This nuanced bouquet of chapters brings together interdisciplinary approaches that reveal the types of social coordination that must exist for exemplars to emerge, circulate, and in turn structure future possibilities that people thus learn to find worthwhile. This collection is a vital starting point for all who want to understand a world built to enable exemplars to spark social change.’ Ilana Gershon, Rice University ‘This conceptually compelling and empirically scrumptious collection edited by Noyes and Wille unpicks the modalities and uptakes of exemplarity in world politics with rare anthropological sensibility. For a finely imaginative example of empirical theorising, defying disciplinary boundaries and engaging a range of perspectives, look no further. A treat.’ Maria Mälksoo, University of Copenhagen ‘How do exemplary acts become themselves? This impressive, wide-ranging volume interrogates the intricate interplay of political claims, performance events and recognition. The chapters offer the reader refreshing and important transdisciplinary insights into the global politics of exemplarity.’ Srdjan Vucetic, University of Ottawa


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