Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgements viii
4. Introduction 1
5. Politics: Deciding What Matters
6. Comparative International Politics (1982) 27
7. Prometheus Prostrate (1984) 43
8. Centre–Periphery Relations (2017) 58
9. On Power (2017) 73
10. Ethics: Doing What We Should
11. Rules for Torture? (2009) 93
12. The Ambiguous Modernism of Seyla Benhabib (2009) 109
13. Relative Strangers (2013) 122
14. Ethical Systems (2016) 147
15. Semantics: Saying What We See
16. Writing Large (2000) 167
17. Intertextual Relations (2009) 183
18. World-making, State-building (2014) 193
19. What We Do (2018) 213
20. The Dinosaur Speaks! (2018) 230
21. Afterword 236
22. References 243
23. Index of Names 263
24. Index of Concepts 266