Publisher： Cambridge University Press
E-ISSN： 1748-6858|10|2|154-173
ISSN： 0034-6705
Source： Review of Politics, Vol.10, Iss.2, 1948-04, pp. : 154-173
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Abstract
From the end of the religious wars to the First World War, the modern state system was kept together by the intellectual and moral tradition of the Western world. That tradition imposed moral and legal limitations on the struggle for power on the international in a certatin measure, maintained order in the international community and secured the independence of its individual members. What is left of this heritage today? What kind of consensus unites the nations of the world in the period following the Second World War?
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