Principled world politics : the challenge of normative international relations at the millennium

This work takes stock of contemporary normative international relations and aims to chart the future course of the discipline.

The volume brings together the most innovative minds currently working in the field and presents their ideas of how to create a more humane world order.

Renowned scholars from around the world explain how to advance the prospects of world peace, economic well-being, social justice, and humane governance.

They further examine the changing character of normative theory and how it can more effectively engage contemporary world affairs.

As normative IR enjoys a resurgence of interest, this volume is th e first to systematically organise and present contemporary scholarship and to set out a coherent agenda for the next century.