POLITICAL THEORY AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

POLITICAL THEORY AND

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
With a New Afterword by the Author

Charles R. Beitz

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY

Copyright © 1979 by Princeton University Press Published by Princeton University Press, 41 William Street, Princeton, New Jersey 08540 In the United Kingdom: Princeton University Press, 3 Market Place, Woodstock, Oxfordshire OX20 1SY Afterword © 1999 by Princeton University Press
All Rights Reserved

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Beitz, Charles R. Political theory and international relations / Charles R. Beitz. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-691-07614-6 1. International relations. 2. World politics. I. Title. JZ1305.B45 1999 327. 1'01— dc21 99-12992
This book has been composed in VIP Baskerville

www.pup.princeton.edu

Contents
Preface Introduction International Relations as a State of Nature
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

vii 3
11

Part One.

The Skepticism of the Realists The Hobbesian Situation International Relations as a State of Nature The Basis of International Morality From International Skepticism to the Morality of States

15 27 35 50
63
67 71

Part Two.

The Autonomy of States
1. State Autonomy and Individual Liberty 2. Nonintervention, Paternalism, and Neutrality 3. Self-determination 4. Eligibility, Boundaries, and Nationality 5. Economic Dependence 6. State Autonomy and Domestic Social Justice

83 92 105 116 121

Part Three. International Distributive Justice

1. Social Cooperation, Boundaries, and the Basis of Justice 2. Entitlements to Natural Resources 3. Interdependence and Global Distributive Justice 4. Contrasts between International and Domestic Society 5. The Rights of States 6. Applications to the Nonideal World

125
129 136
143

154 161 169

Conclusion Afterword

177 185
221

Works Cited
Index

237

Preface attention P variety oftheorists