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Individual Rights and the Making of the International System

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ISBN-10: 0521674484

ISBN-13: 9780521674485

Edition: 2013

Authors: Christian Reus-Smit

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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 successor sovereign states. In the most important, associated with the Westphalian settlement, the independence of Latin America, and post-1945 decolonization, the mobilization of new ideas about individual rights challenged imperial legitimacy,…    
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Book details

List price: $24.99
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 8/29/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 244
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.90" long x 0.47" tall
Weight: 0.924
Language: English

Christian Reus-Smit is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. He is the editor, with Albert Paolini and Anthony Jarvis, of "Between Sovereignty and Global Governance: The United Nations, the State, and Civil Society".