This book argues that, since the end of the Cold War, an international community of liberal States has crystallized within the broader international society of sovereign States. Significantly, this international community has demonstrated a tendency to deny non-liberal States their previously held sovereign right to non-intervention. Instead, the international community considers only those States that demonstrate respect for liberal democratic standards to be sovereign equals. Indeed, the international community, motivated by the theory that international peace and security can be only...
This book argues that, since the end of the Cold War, an international community of liberal States has crystallized within the broader international s...