Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Notes on Contributors vii
4. Acknowledgements ix
5. PART I Introduction
6. 1 Theorizing Exemplarity for Global Politics 3
7. 2 From Performance to Uptake: A Process Model of Exemplarity 23
8. PART II Individuals and Inspiration
9. 3 Gandhi’s Exemplarity 49
10. 4 Tyrannicides, Tyrants, and Emperors: Exemplarity in the Graeco-Roman World 60
11. 5 The Child Greta: The Exemplar as Embodied Future 73
12. PART III The Complexities of Uptake
13. 6 The Truths of Suffering and Injustice: Confucian Exemplarity in the History of Exemplar-Prisoners 91
14. 7 The Exemplary Normativity of International Precedents 110
15. 8 Exemplarity in Global Resistance: Beyond Epics and Romanticism 127
16. PART IV Exemplary Orders
17. 9 Exemplarity and Hierarchy 145
18. 10 The Violence of the Exemplar: The French Civilizing Mission in French and Algerian Memories, 1918–Present 164
19. 11 Prototyping Events: Creating Child-Oriented Methods of Disaster Preparedness 180
20. PART V Trajectories
21. 12 The Soft Power of a Small Country: Self-Perceptions of the Netherlands as a Model for Europe and the World 199
22. 13 Exemplary Appropriation: Holocaust Remembrance Practices in Post-Communist Europe 218
23. 14 From Exemplarity to Farce? The Career of Cold War Threshold Crossings 235
24. PART VI Thinking with Examples
25. 15 Salient Examples in Flawed Reasoning about International Politics 263
26. 16 The Disciplinary Exemplarity of the Concert of Europe 273
27. 17 Conclusion: The Fragility and Persistence of Examples 286
28. Index 296