ABSTRACT
The programme promises to do more than to safeguard peace and security. People may have many reasons for advocating internationalist views. One may be the belief that international exchange brings economic welfare. Another may be the feeling that even though national independence may be a fundamental human value, isolationism and selfsufficiency are not; openness enriches human life. A third may be the conviction that mankind cannot resolve its most pressing problems other than through international cooperation. The question posed in this book, however, is whether internationalism is compelling as a programme for
peace and security; other reasons for adopting internationalist views will not be considered. Thus the issue raised here is the one of order in anarchy, an issue as fundamental to political theory as it is to practical politics in the post-Cold War world.2
