World Politics: Progress and its Limits

Acknowledgements 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