Becoming International

Jens Bartelson is Professor of Political Science at Lund University. He is the author of War in International Thought (Cambridge University Press, 2017), Visions of World Community (Cambridge University Press, 2009), The Critique of the State (Cambridge University Press, 2001) and A Genealogy of Sovereignty (Cambridge University Press, 1995), as well as numerous articles in leading journals in international relations, international law, political theory, and sociology.

• 1. Making sense of the international; 2. Dividing the world; 3. Empire and independence c.1776-–c.1825; 4. Empire and self-determination c. 1820–c.1919; 5. The empire of the international; 6. From the international to the global and beyond?.

'Lucid, learned, and challenging, Becoming International is Jens Bartelson's most ambitious work to date. Its unfailingly critical perspective questions our most fundamental categories - the international and the imperial, the global and the planetary - and will productively reframe myriad pressing contemporary debates.' David Armitage, Author of Foundations of Modern International Thought