The Global Covenant: Human Conduct in a World of States

By Robert Jackson and Robert Jackson

Book Overview

The Global Covenant, a ground-breaking work by one of the leading scholars in international relations, rejuvenates the classical international society approach and brings it into contact with the new era of world politics. This major study presents a comprehensive analysis of 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 profitably draws on diplomatic and military history, international legal studies, and international political theory to address basic methodological questions and to present the elements of a human sciences approach to the study of world politics. The Global Covenant endeavors to justify the world-wide state system as a foundation of political freedom, and envisions the future of international society in the 21st century.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198296258
• ISBN13: 9780198296256
• Release Date: October 2000
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Eye-opening view of international relations

This book introduced me to a host of new ideas and issues concerning international relations. Easy to read, easy to understand. One of the best books I have read on any issue in the last decade. Every chapter gave me a new and challenging way of looking at the world.