International Relations In A Changing Global System

This book expands and deepens the analysis of a new approach to the study of international relations in a changing global system, elaborating the essential characteristics of the anarchic structure of the world polity.

Seyom Brown is the Lawrence A. Wien Professor of International Cooperation at Brandeis University. He is the author of New Forces, Old Forces and the Future of World Politics; The Causes and Prevention of War; and many other books and articles in international relations and foreign policy.

Introduction - The need for a new theory of the world polity. Part 1 Analytical framework: the anarchic structure of the nation-state system; the phenomenon of international cooperation; the prominence of war; vast economic disparities among countries; the mismatch between polity and ecology; human rights versus state rights; the incongruity of society and governance in the nation-state system. Part 2 Toward normative theory: the normative framework; implications for public policy and institutional development