Empires have returned as features of the international scene. With the Cold War's global ideological contest gone, alternative structures such as the War on Ter

International law burst on the scene as a new field in the late nineteenth century. Where did it come from? Rage for Order finds the origins of international la

Examines early modern Spanish contributions to international relations by focusing on ambivalence of natural rights in European colonial expansion to the Americ

What are international orders, how are they destroyed, and how can they be defended in the face of violent challenges? Advancing an innovative realist-construct

Burbank and Cooper examine Rome and China from the third century BCE, empires that sustained state power for centuries.