Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Preface to the Paperback Edition xiii
4. Preface xix
5. 1 Introduction. Geopolitics and Legitimacy in a Globalized World 1
6. Part I. History: international order, law, and organizations in a Eurocentric world
7. 2 A European Order: From Christendom to the League 29
8. 3 A Leadership-Based International System Is Built and Adapts: From World War II and Its Horrors to Judicialized International Law, Financial Crisis, and War 71
9. 4 Geoeconomics within Geopolitics: China and the West Today, and Scenarios for Tomorrow 107
10. Part II. Framework: international institutions, regimes, organizations, and society
11. 5 International Policy Coordination and Cooperation: Humean Conventions and Norms 121
12. 6 Institutions for Cooperation: Equilibria, Regimes, and Organizations 145
13. 7 Order, System, and Society: From Self-Enforcing Order to an International Society of Designed Substantive Law? 166
14. Part III. Geopolitics with Geoeconomics: order, “civilizational” tensions, and a dislocated international system
15. 8 Varieties of Order and System: The Contingent Societal Stability of an Institutionalized Hierarchy with American European Roots 195
16. 9 Rising Powers, Norms, and Geopolitics: Party-Led China’s Self-Identity and US Political Nativism as Risks to System and Order 214
17. 10 Wishful Thinking: Policy Robustness, Resilience, and Legitimacy 235
18. Part IV. Legitimacy: values and principles for international order and system
19. 11 Sovereignty and the Globalization Trilemma: Universalist versus Pluralist International Law and System in a World of Civilizational States 249
20. 12 Legitimacy and Legitimation: A Humean-Williamsian Framework 267
21. 13 Political Realism in International Relations: Order versus System in a World of Concentric Legitimation Circles 294
22. 14 Principles for Constitutional Democracies Legitimately Delegating to International Organizations 337
23. Part V. Applications: reforms to the international economic system during shifting geopolitics
24. 15 Legitimacy for a Fragile International Economic System Facing Fractured Geopolitics 361
25. 16 The International Monetary Fund and the International Monetary Order: An Exercise in Excessive Discretion with Missing Regimes? 378
26. 17 The World Trade Organization and the System for International Trade: Is Judicialized Universalism Unsustainable Because Illegitimate? 401
27. 18 Preferential Trade Pacts and Bilateral Investment Treaties: Security First, or Globalization via Mimesis? 419
28. 19 Basel and the International Financial System: Are the Tower’s Denizens Too Powerful? 434
29. 20 Conclusions. Global Discord: Between Disagreement and Conflict 454
30. Appendix: Principles for Constitutional Democracies Participating and Delegating in International System 475
31. Acknowledgments 485
32. Bibliography 487
33. Name Index 515
34. Subject Index 519
35. A NOTE ON THE TYPE 535