ABSTRACT

This title was first published in 2002: Questioning the most fundamental assumptions of international relations theory, this absorbing work compares and contrasts domestic and international politics regarding the issues of order and disorder taking into account aspects of the two realms which have been neglected by scholarship until now. Challenging the view that there exists a one-to-one correspondence between the absence of a world government and international anarchy and that durable and genuine cooperation among sovereign states becomes extremely difficult, if not impossible, under the circumstances, this text is suitable for upper-level undergraduates, graduates and scholars of international relations.

chapter One|18 pages

Introduction

chapter Two|16 pages

IR and the Assumption of Anarchy

chapter Three|22 pages

Social Order and World Politics

chapter Four|25 pages

Anarchy in Domestic Politics

chapter Eight|7 pages

Conclusions