chapter |12 pages

INTRODUCTION

chapter 1|8 pages

SCOPE AND DEFINITIONS

chapter |3 pages

PREFACE

chapter 2|9 pages

SUMER

The original states system

chapter 3|7 pages

ASSYRIA

The first near eastern empire

chapter 4|7 pages

PERSIA

Imperial moderation

chapter 5|22 pages

CLASSICAL GREECE

Independence and hegemony

chapter 6|8 pages

THE MACEDONIAN SYSTEM

Hellenization of the Persian system

chapter 7|8 pages

INDIA

Multiple independences and the Mauryan Empire

chapter 8|9 pages

CHINA

Hegemony, warring states and empire

chapter 9|13 pages

ROME

The final classical imperial synthesis

chapter 10|5 pages

THE BYZANTINE OIKOUMENE

chapter 11|8 pages

THE ISLAMIC SYSTEM

Adaptation of many traditions

chapter 12|15 pages

THE ANCIENT STATES SYSTEMS

Some theoretical implications

chapter |3 pages

PREFACE

chapter 13|14 pages

MEDIEVAL EUROPE

The originality of Latin Christendom

chapter 14|11 pages

THE RENAISSANCE IN ITALY

The stato

chapter 15|6 pages

THE RENAISSANCE IN EUROPE

The stato outside Italy

chapter 16|13 pages

THE HABSBURG BID FOR HEGEMONY

chapter 17|16 pages

WESTPHALIA

An anti-hegemonial commonwealth of states

chapter 18|16 pages

THE AGE OF REASON AND OF BALANCE

chapter 19|14 pages

EUROPEAN EXPANSION

Overseas and overland

chapter 20|10 pages

THE NAPOLEONIC EMPIRE

chapter 21|13 pages

COLLECTIVE HEGEMONY

The nineteenth-century Concert of Europe

chapter |14 pages

SUMMARY

chapter 22|12 pages

THE EUROPEAN SYSTEM BECOMES

chapter 23|11 pages

THE COLLAPSE OF EUROPEAN DOMINATION

chapter 25|12 pages

THE CONTEMPORARY INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY

Heir to the past

chapter |8 pages

CONCLUSION

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