David R. Mapel, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Colorado at Boulder, is the author of Social Justice Reconsidered. Terry Nardin, Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, is the author of Law, Morality, and the Relations of States (Princeton) and editor of The Ethics of War and Peace: Religious and Secular Perspectives (Princeton). Together they are the coeditors of Traditions in International Ethics.

• PREFACE vii CONTRIBUTORS ix INTRODUCTION David R. Mapel and Terry Nardin 3 PART ONE: PHILOSOPHICAL INTERPRETATIONS 15 CHAPTER 1 Legal Positivism as a Theory of International Society Terry Nardin 17 CHAPTER 2 Legal Positivism and International Society Frederick G. Whelan 36 CHAPTER 3 Natural Law and International Order Robert P. George 54 CHAPTER 4 Some Thoughts on Natural Law and International Order Richard B. Friedman 70 CHAPTER 5 Kant on Justice and the Law of Nations Pierre Laberge 82 CHAPTER 6 Kantian International Liberalism Fernando R. Teson 103 CHAPTER 7 International Society from a Contractarian Perspective John Charvet 114 CHAPTER 8 Contractarian Thought and the Constitution of International Society Chris Brown 132 CHAPTER 9 International Society from a Cosmopolitan Perspective Brian Barry 144 CHAPTER 1O The Limits of Cosmopolitan Justice David Miller 164 PART TWO: THEOLOGICAL COMMENTARIES 183 CHAPTER 11 Jewish Theology and International Society David Novak 185 CHAPTER 12 Christianity and the Prospects for a New Global Order Max L. Stackhouse 201 CHAPTER 13 Islamic Ethics in International Society Sohail H. Hashmi 215 PART THREE: COMPARATIVE OVERVIEW 237 CHAPTER 14 Justice, Diversity, and Law in International Society David R. Mapel 239 INDEX 259

"The work edited by Mapel and Nardin comprises sophisticated philosophical and legal analyses of the concept of 'international society' that is often associated with 'the English school' in International Relations... A useful and highly topical corrective to the 'rogue states doctrine' promulgated by the United States!"--NOD and Conversion "This penetrating study examines ethical perspectives on international society... This volume will be of special interest to scholars of international ethics."--Choice "The collection is excellently constructed and put together and both individually and collectively very powerful... An intellectually distinguished and extremely well conceived project."--N.J. Rengger, Political Studies

David R. Mapel, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Colorado at Boulder, is the author of Social Justice Reconsidered. Terry Nardin, Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, is the author of Law, Morality, and the Relations of States (Princeton) and editor of The Ethics of War and Peace: Religious and Secular Perspectives (Princeton). Together they are the coeditors of Traditions in International Ethics.

• PREFACE vii CONTRIBUTORS ix INTRODUCTION David R. Mapel and Terry Nardin 3 PART ONE: PHILOSOPHICAL INTERPRETATIONS 15 CHAPTER 1 Legal Positivism as a Theory of International Society Terry Nardin 17 CHAPTER 2 Legal Positivism and International Society Frederick G. Whelan 36 CHAPTER 3 Natural Law and International Order Robert P. George 54 CHAPTER 4 Some Thoughts on Natural Law and International Order Richard B. Friedman 70 CHAPTER 5 Kant on Justice and the Law of Nations Pierre Laberge 82 CHAPTER 6 Kantian International Liberalism Fernando R. Teson 103 CHAPTER 7 International Society from a Contractarian Perspective John Charvet 114 CHAPTER 8 Contractarian Thought and the Constitution of International Society Chris Brown 132 CHAPTER 9 International Society from a Cosmopolitan Perspective Brian Barry 144 CHAPTER 1O The Limits of Cosmopolitan Justice David Miller 164 PART TWO: THEOLOGICAL COMMENTARIES 183 CHAPTER 11 Jewish Theology and International Society David Novak 185 CHAPTER 12 Christianity and the Prospects for a New Global Order Max L. Stackhouse 201 CHAPTER 13 Islamic Ethics in International Society Sohail H. Hashmi 215 PART THREE: COMPARATIVE OVERVIEW 237 CHAPTER 14 Justice, Diversity, and Law in International Society David R. Mapel 239 INDEX 259

"The work edited by Mapel and Nardin comprises sophisticated philosophical and legal analyses of the concept of 'international society' that is often associated with 'the English school' in International Relations... A useful and highly topical corrective to the 'rogue states doctrine' promulgated by the United States!"--NOD and Conversion "This penetrating study examines ethical perspectives on international society... This volume will be of special interest to scholars of international ethics."--Choice "The collection is excellently constructed and put together and both individually and collectively very powerful... An intellectually distinguished and extremely well conceived project."--N.J. Rengger, Political Studies

David R. Mapel, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Colorado at Boulder, is the author of Social Justice Reconsidered. Terry Nardin, Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, is the author of Law, Morality, and the Relations of States (Princeton) and editor of The Ethics of War and Peace: Religious and Secular Perspectives (Princeton). Together they are the coeditors of Traditions in International Ethics.

• PREFACE vii CONTRIBUTORS ix INTRODUCTION David R. Mapel and Terry Nardin 3 PART ONE: PHILOSOPHICAL INTERPRETATIONS 15 CHAPTER 1 Legal Positivism as a Theory of International Society Terry Nardin 17 CHAPTER 2 Legal Positivism and International Society Frederick G. Whelan 36 CHAPTER 3 Natural Law and International Order Robert P. George 54 CHAPTER 4 Some Thoughts on Natural Law and International Order Richard B. Friedman 70 CHAPTER 5 Kant on Justice and the Law of Nations Pierre Laberge 82 CHAPTER 6 Kantian International Liberalism Fernando R. Teson 103 CHAPTER 7 International Society from a Contractarian Perspective John Charvet 114 CHAPTER 8 Contractarian Thought and the Constitution of International Society Chris Brown 132 CHAPTER 9 International Society from a Cosmopolitan Perspective Brian Barry 144 CHAPTER 1O The Limits of Cosmopolitan Justice David Miller 164 PART TWO: THEOLOGICAL COMMENTARIES 183 CHAPTER 11 Jewish Theology and International Society David Novak 185 CHAPTER 12 Christianity and the Prospects for a New Global Order Max L. Stackhouse 201 CHAPTER 13 Islamic Ethics in International Society Sohail H. Hashmi 215 PART THREE: COMPARATIVE OVERVIEW 237 CHAPTER 14 Justice, Diversity, and Law in International Society David R. Mapel 239 INDEX 259

"The work edited by Mapel and Nardin comprises sophisticated philosophical and legal analyses of the concept of 'international society' that is often associated with 'the English school' in International Relations... A useful and highly topical corrective to the 'rogue states doctrine' promulgated by the United States!"--NOD and Conversion "This penetrating study examines ethical perspectives on international society... This volume will be of special interest to scholars of international ethics."--Choice "The collection is excellently constructed and put together and both individually and collectively very powerful... An intellectually distinguished and extremely well conceived project."--N.J. Rengger, Political Studies