ABSTRACT
International society accepts the unstable nature of the international relations while accepting that states tend to navigate through that uncertainty by the shared acceptance and promotion of common norms and rules. Some states benefit more from it than others, but there is an overall balance between order and justice that is accepted by all of its members that gives stability to a given international society. The international system is known as an eminent realist concept – states interact in an anarchical system – and world society, in the English School version, follows from the Immanuel Kant tradition and focuses on the individual as the focus of global societal identities. In the United States the number of scholars and students, the demand for textbooks and monographs, the market for journals and an academic structure based on the ‘publish or perish’ syndrome, all contributed to the growing asymmetry.
