Ebook: Revolutions in Sovereignty: How Ideas Shaped Modern International Relations

COVER; CONTENTS; TABLES AND FIGURES; PREFACE; PART ONE: REVOLUTIONS IN SOVEREIGNTY; ONE: INTRODUCTION: REVOLUTIONS IN SOVEREIGNTY; TWO: THE CONSTITUTION OF INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY; THREE: A BRIEF HISTORY OF CONSTITUTIONS OF INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY IN THE WEST; FOUR: HOW REVOLUTIONS IN IDEAS BRING REVOLUTIONS IN SOVEREIGNTY; PART TWO: THE FOUNDING OF THE SOVEREIGN STATES SYSTEM AT WESTPHALIA; FIVE: WESTPHALIA AS ORIGIN; SIX: THE ORIGIN OF WESTPHALIA; SEVEN: THE POWER OF PROTESTANT PROPOSITIONS; PART THREE: THE REVOLUTION OF COLONIAL INDEPENDENCE: THE GLOBAL EXPANSION OF WESTPHALIA.;How did the world come to be organized into sovereign states? Daniel Philpott argues that two historical revolutions in ideas are responsible. First, the Protestant Reformation ended medieval Christendom and brought a system of sovereign states in Europe, culminating at the Peace of Westphalia in 1648. Second, ideas of equality and colonial nationalism brought a sweeping end to colonial empires around 1960, spreading the sovereign states system to the rest of the globe. In both cases, revolutions in ideas about legitimate political authority profoundly altered the ""constitution"" that esta.