Publication

1999 - Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J, New Jersey

Language

English

Word Count

49,750 words, Guess

Page Count

199 pages

Identifiers

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Classifications

  • LCCJZ1306 .R48 1999

Description

"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 combination of international law and multilateral diplomacy? Conventional explanations of basic institutional practices have difficulty accounting for such variation. Christian Reus-Smit addresses this problem by presenting an alternative, "constructivist" theory of international institutional development, one that emphasizes the relationship between the social identity of the state and the nature and origin of basic institutional practices."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • Princeton studies in international history and politics

Other Editions

  • The moral purpose of the state: culture, social identity, and institutional rationality in international relationsPrinceton University Press1999-01-01

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