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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009]
©1999
Year of Publication:2009
Edition:Core Textbook
Language:English
Series:Princeton Studies in International History and Politics ; 119
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Physical Description:1 online resource (216 p.) :; 1 table 2 line illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Table and Figures
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Chapter One. The Enigma of Fundamental Institutions
  • Chapter Two. The Constitutional Structure of International Society
  • Chapter Three. Ancient Greece
  • Chapter Four. Renaissance Italy
  • Chapter Five. Absolutist Europe
  • Chapter Six. Modern International Society
  • Chapter Seven. Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index