A Theory of Justice
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City-state
Civic virtue
Classical realism (international relations)
Collective security
Consent of the governed
Constitutional law
Critical theory
Culture and Society
Democratic peace theory
Diplomacy
Divine right of kings
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Fair procedure
Governance
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Hegemony
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Institution
International human rights law
International law
International relations
Judicial interpretation
Law in action
Law of obligations
Legitimacy (political)
Legitimation
Moral authority
Morality
Multilateralism
National security
Obedience (human behavior)
On Liberty
Participatory democracy
Peace and conflict studies
Peacemaking
Popular sovereignty
Positivism
Power politics
Precedent
Prerogative
Procedural justice
Proximate cause
Public diplomacy
Public international law
Public law
Public rights
Rational choice theory
Rationality
Realism (international relations)
Realpolitik
Regime theory
Right of revolution
Right to property
Rule of law
Sovereign state
Sovereignty
Sphere of influence
State (polity)
State formation
Suzerainty
Territorial integrity
The Sovereign State
Theory of International Politics
Treaty
Two Treatises of Government
Value (ethics)
Westphalian sovereignty
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- ISBN 9780691144351
- Weight: 312g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 22 Nov 2009
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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, "constructivist" theory of international institutional development, one that emphasizes the relationship between the social identity of the state and the nature and origin of basic institutional practices. Reus-Smit argues that international societies are shaped by deep constitutional structures that are based on prevailing beliefs about the moral purpose of the state, the organizing principle of sovereignty, and the norm of procedural justice.
These structures inform the imaginations of institutional architects as they develop and adjust institutional arrangements between states. As he shows with detailed reference to ancient Greece, Renaissance Italy, absolutist Europe, and the modern world, different cultural and historical contexts lead to profoundly different constitutional structures and institutional practices. The first major study of its kind, this book is a significant addition to our theoretical and empirical understanding of international relations, past and present.
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".
