Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Deidication -- Contents -- Tables -- Preface -- The domains of change -- 1 The problem of change in international relations: rhetoric, markers, and metrics -- Markers of change -- Trends -- Great events -- Significant social/technological innovations -- Concepts of change -- Change as novelty or replacement -- Change as addition or subtraction -- Change as increased/decreased complexity -- Change as transformation -- Change as reversion -- Change as obsolescence -- International institutions as metrics and markers of change -- Foundational and process institutions -- 2 States and statehood -- The late seventeenth-century Westphalian state -- Practices: the great power grab -- Ideas -- Norms -- The Peace of Westphalia -- Nation and state in nineteenth-century Europe: growing complexity -- The contemporary state -- The practices of contemporary statehood -- Ideas -- Norms -- The problem of weak states -- The state and change: the case for transformation -- Critique of the state transformation/obsolescence argument -- The case for complexity -- Explaining change -- 3 Territoriality -- The bordering of Europe -- Sixteenth-century ideas of territoriality -- Early border practices -- Why borders? -- Territorial practices in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe -- Norms and rules -- Changing ideas of territory: from the limits of realms to lines of nations -- Modern territorial practices -- Territorial practices since 1945: transforming an international institution -- Border functions -- Norms and rules -- Explaining the "territorial compact" -- The case for obsolescence -- Critique -- Conclusions -- 4 Sovereignty -- The constitutive rules and functions of sovereignty -- The problem of authority in the medieval era -- The critical seventeenth century: Westphalia.

The Peace of Westphalia: practical consequences -- The Peace of Westphalia: ideational and normative consequences -- Sovereignty and the birth of states -- Sovereignty and the maintenance of states -- Sovereignty and the death of states: the problem of conquest -- The case for transformation of sovereignty -- What has changed? -- 5 International law -- Norms, rules, and law -- Early ideas about international obligations -- Norms in early modern Europe -- Practices -- Universalizing norms and practices -- Continuity, complexity, and change in contemporary international law -- Ideas and norms of human rights and armed intervention -- The coexistence of states: non-intervention, ideology, and strategic interests -- The coexistence of state: the right of conquest and jus ad bello -- The problem of consent -- Individuals and international law -- The institutionalization of international law: codes, covenants, and courts -- The rules of the game in international relations: ethics and the sources of compliance -- 6 Diplomacy -- The birth of the diplomatic institution in the seventeenth century -- Practices -- Ideas -- Norms -- Other evidence of institutionalization -- Explaining a new institution -- Contemporary diplomacy -- Practices -- Ideas -- Norms, rules, and etiquette -- Accounting for changes -- The case for obsolescence -- The case for complexity -- 7 International trade -- Practices -- Ideas and beliefs -- The power of ideas: the transition to institutionalized trade -- The institutionalization of trade -- The norms of international trade -- Accounting for institutionalization -- The stability of institutionalized trade -- 8 Colonialism -- Modern colonialism as an international institution -- Colonial practices -- Norms, rules, and etiquette -- Ideologies and belief system foundations of colonialism -- Liberalism -- Paternalism.

Economic development -- Racism -- Humanitarianism -- From humanitarianism and paternalism to strategic necessity -- The game of imperialism -- Toward obsolescence -- Explaining obsolescence -- Indigenous political activity and resistance -- The consequences of European wars -- Changes in colonial practices -- Changes in systemic norms -- Ideas and beliefs -- Economic and financial constraints -- 9 War -- Institutionalizing war in eighteenth-century Europe -- Ideas -- Patterned practices -- Norms, rules, and etiquette -- The de-institutionalization of war -- War and terrorism -- Explaining de-institutionalization -- "Smart" munitions and the re-institutionalization of war? -- Is war an institution? -- 10 International institutions: types, sources, and consequences of change -- International institutions and the international system -- The influence of institutions -- War in systems of states -- The socialization of states? -- The idea of the international community -- Some reflections on the nature of change in international politics -- References -- Index.