The Global Covenant Human Conduct in a World of States [Paperback]

The Global Covernantis 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 Covenantconcludes 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 InternationalSocietas
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 InternationalSocietas?
15. Justifying the Global Covenant

Robert Jacksonis Professor of Political Science at the University of British Columbia.