Individual Rights and the Making of the International System

by Christian Reus-Smit

Book Overview

We live today in the first global system of sovereign states in history, encompassing all of the world's polities, peoples, religions and civilizations. Christian Reus-Smit presents a new account of how this system came to be, one in which struggles for individual rights play a central role. The international system expanded from its original European core in five great waves, each involving the fragmentation of one or more empires into a host of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521674484
• ISBN13: 9780521674485
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"