The Limits of Independence: Relations Between States in the Modern WorldPsychology Press, 1997 - 160 頁 Nation states are not as independent as they seem. In The Limits of Independence, Adam Watson explores how independence of action is limited by both a tightening net of interdependence between countries and by the rules which the 'international society of states' has put in place to manage order and change. He also argues that the external and internal behaviour of independent states is increasingly determined by the influence of the richest and strongest powers. |
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The general framework | 1 |
LIMITS TO INDEPENDENCE IN EUROPE | 4 |
EXPANSION AND WITHDRAWAL OUTSIDE EUROPE | 9 |
DISSOLUTION OF THE EUROPEAN EMPIRES | 11 |
STANDARDS OF CIVILIZATION | 12 |
TWO SETS OF QUESTIONS | 13 |
The European imbalance of power or the German question | 16 |
THE WEAKENING OF RESTRAINT | 17 |
THE EXTENSION OF STANDARDS OF CIVILIZATION | 87 |
EFFECTS OF PRESSURE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS | 90 |
Independence and responsibility | 95 |
OBLIGATIONS TO THE ELECTORATE | 96 |
OBLIGATIONS TO OTHER STATES | 98 |
OBLIGATIONS TO HUMANITY AND THE ENVIRONMENT | 99 |
RESPONSIBILITY AND POWER | 101 |
DOES RESPONSIBILITY TRANSCEND INDEPENDENCE? | 103 |
ALTERNATIVES FOR EUROPE | 20 |
INDUSTRIALIZATION | 25 |
THE PROBLEM AFTER WORLD WAR I | 28 |
ANARCHOPHOBIA OR EUROPEAN UNION | 32 |
THE LESSONS OF INADEQUATE RESTRAINTS | 39 |
Decolonization and its consequences | 46 |
EUROPEAN EXPANSION | 47 |
THE LEGACY OF THE DEPENDENT STATES | 49 |
EUROPEAN ATTITUDES | 54 |
ATTITUDES IN THE DEPENDENCIES | 61 |
DECOLONIZATION IN PERSPECTIVE | 65 |
Size nationalism and imperial systems | 69 |
PROBLEMS OF SIZE AND ADEQUACY | 70 |
THE PROBLEM OF MINISTATES | 75 |
TWO IMPERIAL SYSTEMS | 77 |
CHANGING CONCEPTS OF SOVEREIGNTY | 81 |
Standards of civilization and human rights | 83 |
New perspectives on the states system | 106 |
THE DYNAMIC OF PRIVATE ENTERPRISE | 109 |
THE RECIPIENTDONOR LIST | 115 |
STATES AND SYSTEMS OF STATES | 118 |
THE PENDULUM | 123 |
The contemporary practice of hegemony | 126 |
CHANGING STANDARDS OF CIVILIZATION | 129 |
CHANGING IDEAS OF SOVEREIGNTY | 130 |
A CONCERT OF ALL GREAT POWERS | 132 |
THE CASE FOR DELEGATED RESPONSIBILITY | 133 |
THE ROLE OF OMNILATERAL INSTITUTIONS | 135 |
RESTRAINTS ON HEGEMONIAL POWERS | 136 |
TODAY AND TOMORROW | 138 |
Glossary | 144 |
Further reading on international society | 152 |
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