Description
Book SynopsisA The next title in a major trade series -- Themes for the 21st Century A Addresses some of the most important themes in contemporary world politics A By one of the worlda s leading scholars of international relations A Lively and accessible volume written for a general audience as well as scholars and students.
Trade Review'This is a tremendous little book. It deals with many of the profound political and normative questions confronting the study of international relations today, offering a well-argued scepticism which does not degenerate into crude realism or nihilism. It is a book which I would happily recommend to my graduate and undergraduate students alike.'
Anthony McGrew, Professor of International Relations, University of Southampton "This is a little book that reflects long and hard thinking about difficult subjects. It will repay more than one reading and represents an important contribution to the canon of works from the English school of International Relations." Richard Little, University of Bristol
"This impressive essay address some of the most perplexing normative questions that have arisen in world politics since the end of the Cold War... (a) timely and probing critique of the progressive international temper of our times should be read and pondered by anyone who takes an interest in the ethics of contemporary world politics." Candaian Journal of Political Science
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements ix
Abbreviations xi
Prologue 1
Part I: International Society
1 Origins and Structure 11
2 The Modernization of International Society 17
3 A New Solidarism? 26
Part II: Sovereignty
4 Nationalism 39
5 Self-determination 53
6 Reappraisal 67
Part III: Democracy
7 Historical Antecedents and Cultural
Preconditions 81
8 International Law and the Instruments of
Foreign Policy 94
9 Pluralism and Solidarism Revisited 106
Part IV: Intervention
10 Intervention in Liberal International Theory 123
11 Humanitarian Intervention in the 1990s 134
Epilogue 149
Notes 158
Index 165
