The Moral Purpose of the State : : Culture, Social Identity, and Institutional Rationality in International Relations / / Christian Reus-Smit.
This book seeks to explain why different systems of sovereign states have built different types of fundamental institutions to govern interstate relations. Why, for example, did the ancient Greeks operate a successful system of third-party arbitration, while international society today rests on a co...
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