ABSTRACT
With the end of the Cold War, and the advance of what some call 'globalization', the concept of an international order, or new international order. Modern liberal political theory offers an obvious way of conceptualizing an international order, seems to be a fashionable topic of debate. Rawls adds that these peoples have their own internal governments which, in his words, may be 'constitutional liberal democratic' or 'non-liberal but decent governments'. Both A Theory of Justice and Rawls' later major work, Political Liberalism, in Rawls' words, 'try to say how a liberal society might be possible'. Rawls' fundamental ideas of the 'social contract', the 'original position' and the 'veil of ignorance', as developed in A Theory of Justice, are thus extended in The Law of Peoples to this international society of liberal and 'decent' but 'non-liberal' peoples. The author takes Rawls' Law of Peoples to be an exemplar of a modern liberal approach to the concept of an international order.
