Shows the central role struggles over individual rights played in the development of today's global system of sovereign states.[...]
Shows the central role struggles over individual rights played in the development of today's global system of sovereign states.[...]
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 co[...]