The Global Covenant

The Global Covernant is a ground-breaking work by one of the leading scholars in international relations that rejuvenates the classical international society approach, and brings it into contact with the new era of world politics. It investigates the most important international issues of our time, including peace and security, war and intervention, human rights, failed states, territories and boundaries, and democracy. It draws on a family of closely related disciplines: diplomatic and military history, international legal studies, and international political theory. It addresses basic methodological questions and presents the elements of a human sciences approach to the study of world politics. It contemplates the future of international society in the 21st century. The Global Covenant concludes by justifying the pluralist society of sovereign states as one that respects human diversity and upholds human freedom.

- Preface - 1: The Normative Dialogue of International Society - PART I. THEORY AND HISTORY OF INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY - 2: International Human Relations - 3: Recovering the Classical Approach - 4: The Classical Approach as a Craft Discipline - 5: The Political Theory of International Societas - 6: The Situational Ethics of Independent Statecraft - 7: The Pluralist Architecture of World Politics - PART II. PASSAGES OF CONTEMPORARY INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY - 8: Security in a Pluralist World - 9: Justifying Conventional War - 10: Armed Intervention for Humanity - 11: Failed States and International Trusteeship - 12: International Boundaries as a Planetary Institution - 13: Democracy and International Community - PART III. VALUE AND FUTURE OF INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY - 14: Alternatives to International Societas? - 15: Justifying the Global Covenant