Re-Framing the International insists that, if we are to properly face the challenges of the coming century, we need to re-examine international politics and development through the prism of ethics and morality. International relations must now contend with a widening circle of participants reflecting the diversity and uneveness of status, memory, gender, race, culture and class.

Introduction: The International and the Challenge of Speculative Reason,Richard Falk, Lester Edwin J. Ruiz and R.B.J. Walker1.After the Future: Enclosures, Connections, Politics,R.B.J. Walker2.Tainted by Contingency:Retelling the Story of Interantional Law, Nicholas Onuf3.Reframing the Legal Agenda of World Order in the Course of a Turbulent Century,Richard Falk4.The Ideas of 1989: The Origins of hte Concept of Global Civil Society,Mary H. Kaldor5. Overcoming the Dysfunction of the Bifurcated Global System: The Promise of a People Assembly,Andrew L. Strauss6.Orders of Inhumanity,Jayan Nayar 7.From Modernization to Democratization: The Political Economy of hte New International Law,Balakrishnan Rajagopal8.In Pursuit of hte Body Politic: Ethics, Spirituality, and Diaspora,Lester Edwin J. Ruiz9. Conflicts, Convergence, or Coexistence? The Relevance of Culture in Reframing World Order,Jacinta O'Hagen 10.Feminist Futures: Contesting the Political,Karena Shaw

Richard A. Falk is Visiting Distinguished Professor of Global Studies at University of California, Santa Barbara and Emeritus Professor of International Law and Practice at Princeton University. R.B.J. Walker is Professor of International Relations at Keele University, and editor of the journal Alternatives. Lester Edwin J. Ruiz is Professor of Theology and Culture at the New York Theological Seminary.