On Global Order: Power, Values, and the Constitution of International Society

This book is concerned with the fate of international society in an era of globalization and the ability of the inherited society of sovereign states to provide a practically viable and normatively acceptable framework for global political order. It lays particular emphasis on the different forms of global inequality and the problems of legitimacy that these create and on the challenges posed by cultural diversity and value conflict.

Andrew Hurrell is Montague Burton Professor of International Relations at Balliol College, University of Oxford. He has written extensively on international institutions and governance at both the global and regional levels and on the role of major developing countries in contemporary international relations. Previous publications include: co-editor with Ngaire Woods, Inequality, Globalization and World Politics (1999); and co-editor with Rosemary Foot and John Gaddis, Order and Justice in International Relations (2003).