Introduction p. xi I The Era of Internationalism Prologue: The Concert of Europe, 1815-1914 p. 3 Chapter 1 Under the Sign of the International p. 13 Chapter 2 Brotherhood p. 31 Chapter 3 The Empire of Law p. 65 Chapter 4 Science the Unifier p. 94 Chapter 5 The League of Nations p. 116 Chapter 6 The Battle of Ideologies p. 154 II Governing the World the American Way Chapter 7 "The League Is Dead. Long Live the United Nations." p. 191 Chapter 8 Cold War Realities, 1945-49 p. 214 Chapter 9 The Second World, and the Third p. 244 Chapter 10 Development as World-Making, 1949-73 p. 273 Chapter 11 The United States in Opposition p. 305 Chapter 12 The Real New International Economic Order p. 343 Chapter 13 Humanity's Law p. 378 Chapter 14 What Remains: The Crisis in Europe and After.

A majestic narrative reckoning with the forces that have shaped the nature and destiny of the world's governing institutions The story of global cooperation is a tale of dreamers goading us to find common cause in remedying humanity's worst problems. But international institutions are also tools for the powers that be to advance their own interests. Mark Mazower's Governing the World tells the epic, two-hundred-year story of that inevitable tension#151;the unstable and often surprising alchemy between ideas and power. From the rubble of the Napoleonic empire in the nineteenth century through the birth of the League of Nations and the United Nations in the twentieth century to the dominance of global finance at the turn of the millennium, Mazower masterfully explores the current era of international life as Western dominance wanes and a new global balance of powers emerges.

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