Imagining World Order by Chenxi Tang HARDBACK 9781501716911

Imagining World Order\nby Chenxi Tang\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nDelivery\nUsually delivered in 8\u20139 working days.\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Chenxi Tang\nTitle: Imagining World Order\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Literary studies: c 1400 to c 1600\nPublisher: Cornell University Press\nPublication year: 2018\nISBN-13: 9781501716911\nISBN-10: 1501716913\nRRP: \u00A353.00\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nIn early modern Europe, international law emerged as a means of governing relations between rapidly consolidating sovereign states, purporting to establish a normative order for the perilous international world. However, it was intrinsically fragile and uncertain, for sovereign states had no acknowledged common authority that would create, change, apply, and enforce legal norms. In Imagi.