On Global Order: Power, Values, and the Constitution of International Society
"[Hurrell] gives a complex and robust picture of the interplay between power projection and value commitments."--Political Science Quarterly"On Global Orderconsciously and successfully sets out to be the twenty-first-century version ofThe Anarchical Society...a major statement and required reading for anyone interested in the theory and practice of international relations."--Political Studies Review"...stands out as an oasis of clarity, intellectual honesty and wisdom in the desert of obscure platitudes..."--Survival"This book has been eagerly anticipated and it does not disappoint. Its principal concern is with the challenges of global order: capturing shared interests, managing unequal power, and mediating value conflict. This is a subtle and challenging book at every level, and its prime characteristic is its consistent eschewal of facile options, either analytical or prescriptive."--Perspectives on Politics"To a historian, this book by a political scientist is of considerable interest and usefulness...students of international history can only welcome Hurrell's quest for 'a practically more viable and morally more acceptable form of global political order.'"--International History Review"delivers...an essential contribution"--Sergio Dellavalle, Senior Research Fellow at the MPI and Professor of State Theory at the Faculty of Law of the University of Turin International and European Law Book Reviews Online