01303nam a22001337a 450000500170000000800410001702000180005805000150007624501010009126000520019230000290024450000520027350508440032520220221095147.0220218b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d a9780691057477 aJZ4038.P48 aRevolutions in sovereignty : how ideas shaped modern international relations /cDaniel Philpott. aPrinceton :bPrinceton University Press,c2001. axii, 339 pages :c23 cm. aIncludes bibliographical references and index. aContents : Part one : Revolutions in sovereignty : Introduction : revolutions in sovereignty -- The constitution of international society -- A brief history of constitutions of international society in the west -- How revolutions in ideas bring revolutions in sovereignty -- Part two : The founding of the sovereign states system at Westphalia : Westphalia as origin -- The origin of Westphalia -- The power of protestant propositions -- Part three : The revolution of colonial independence : the global expansion of Westphalia : Ideas and the end of empire -- The end of the British empire : crashing out the promise of self-government -- Revolutionary idea in the British colonies -- Britain's burden of empire -- The fall of greater France -- Part four : The revolutions considered together : Conclusion : two revolutions, one movement.