Introduction : from this century to the next -- Part 1. Theorists, theories : Hedley Bull and his contribution to international relations ; Ideal worlds ; Beyond realism and idealism in international politics ; Crisis of liberal internationalism -- Part 2. From the end of the Cold War to the search for a new world order : What should we do in the world? ; A new world and its troubles ; Delusions of world order ; Price of war ; In defense of Mother Teresa ; Politics and ethics of military intervention ; Thoughts on the UN at fifty -- Part 3. Ethnicity, nationalism, and world order : Passion of modernity ; Nationalism and world order ; On ethnic conflicts and their resolution ; Intervention in Kosovo ; Nation and nationalism in America today ; Conclusion, principles of a liberal ethics for international relations, a normative outline

This book is a collection of ... essays [the author has] written about international affairs in the past decade. [The] earlier essays dealt largely with the universe of the cold war; many of the recent ones try to make sense of the complicated international system that has replaced it. They pay particular attention to the issues of nationalism and intervention in the domestic affairs of states ... These essays try to make sense of an international system in which forces contained or repressed during the cold war are asserting (or, like nationalism, reasserting) themselves. It is also a system in which, long after decolonization, the failure of the colonizers to prepare adequate state institutions for the peoples they had dominated, and the failure of many of the leaders of the newly emancipated peoples to build such structures, have led to violence and disintegration--Proporcionado por el editor.