Sovereignty, Rights and Justice: International Political Theory Today

Sovereignty,RightsandJusticesurveystherelationshipbetweeninternationalrelationstheoryandpoliticaltheory,showingthewayinwhichthesetwodiscourses,onceconsideredseparate,arenowintertwined.Inthefirstpartofthebookanhistoricaloverviewoftheinternationalpoliticaltheoryonthe′WestphaliaSystem′ispresented,withbriefaccountsofthelawofnations,andthenotionofan′internationalsociety′aswellasanexaminationoftheinternationalthoughtoftheEnlightenmentandofnineteenth–centuryindustrialsociety.Internationaltheoryinthetwentiethcenturyisthenexamined,leadingintoaconsiderationofsomeofthekeyissuesoflate–twentieth–centuryinternationalrelations,includingtherightsofpoliticalcommunities;theethicsofforceininternationalrelations;humanrights;humanitarianintervention;globalsocialjusticeandthemoralrelevanceofborders;culturaldiversityandthe′Asianvalues′debate.Inthefinalchapters,theimpactofglobalizationonalltheseissuesisexamined.Thisisanaccessibleintroductiontooneofthemostimportantareasofcontemporarypoliticaltheory,andonebasedfirmlyontheanalysisofreal–worldproblems.