International Society, Global Polity

Introduction to the Study of International Political Theory PART ONE: INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY International Society and International Law War as an Institution of International Society Human Rights, Humanitarianism and the Society of States Challenges to the Society of States PART TWO: THE EMERGING GLOBAL POLITY The New Human Rights Regime Intervention: The 1990s Learning Curve The Responsibility to Protect The Ethics of War and Violence in a Post-Westphalian Age Global Justice CONCLUSION The Return of Realism in Theory and Practice

Chris Brown brings a wealth of experience and insight to understanding the unsettled surface of modern international relations. The connecting threads of the enterprise are the propositions that we are in transition from making the world intelligible in terms of the idea of the world as an international society, and alternatively as a global polity. The second proposition is that international political theory is applied political philosophy. What this means is that the book is driven by a strong argument which demonstrates the implications of viewing the world from the different perspectives, and a firm grounding in empirical international politics to keep theory securely anchored to the questions that animate the theory and practice of the discipline. -- David Boucher