Hegemony suffers from a bad press. It is currently used to refer simply to United States primacy. Thus presented, the US is considered to have been hegemonic since 1945, or at least since 1990. Instead, hegemony is presented ...

John Rawls has been the most influential figure in Anglo-American political philosophy since publishing A Theory of Justice in 1971. The focus of this thesis is his later work, The Law of Peoples, which sets out his ideas ...

Adopting an English School approach, the book suggests that hegemony be regarded as an institution of international society. It explores this notion historically through the Concert of Europe, Pax britannica and Pax ...

The book examines for the first time the nature of international special responsibilities, the complex politics that surround them, and how they condition social power. The argument is illustrated with reference to nuclear ...