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The Moral Purpose of the State: Culture, Social Identity, and Institutional Rationality in International Relations
Christian Reus-Smit
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Paperback. Seeks to explain why different systems of sovereign states have built different types of fundamental institutions to govern interstate relations. Series: Princeton Studies in International History and Politics. Num Pages: 216 pages, 1 table 2 line illus. BIC Classification: HPS; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 156 x 235 x 13. Weight in Grams: 348.
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 combination of international law and multilateral diplomacy? Why did the city-states of Renaissance Italy develop a system of oratorical diplomacy, while the states of absolutist Europe relied on naturalist international law and old diplomacy ? Conventional explanations of basic institutional practices have difficulty accounting for such variation. Christian Reus-Smit addresses this problem by presenting an alternative, ... Read more
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 combination of international law and multilateral diplomacy? Why did the city-states of Renaissance Italy develop a system of oratorical diplomacy, while the states of absolutist Europe relied on naturalist international law and old diplomacy ? Conventional explanations of basic institutional practices have difficulty accounting for such variation. Christian Reus-Smit addresses this problem by presenting an alternative, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
216
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Series
Princeton Studies in International History and Politics
Condition
New
Weight
358g
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691144351
SKU
V9780691144351
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About Christian Reus-Smit
Christian Reus-Smit is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. He is the editor, with Albert Paolini and Anthony Jarvis, of Between Sovereignty and Global Governance: The United Nations, the State, and Civil Society .
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