ABSTRACT
It remains to see what practical advice we can distil from the evidence in the foregoing chapters, and from a clearer understanding of how our society of states functions. How does the present degree of collective hegemony affect these ends? How might we move the conduct of the day to day relations between states, and international society generally, in a direction that will be welcome to us? In looking for suggestions I will assume that anarchy, or inadequate limits to independence, is undesirable but all too likely, and that a single democratically chosen world government is so out of the present range of possibilities that its desirability is irrelevant to our question. How can we move the world as it is now, between the undesirable and the impossible, towards the mundane advantages of peace and order and greater material well-being?
