This volume of essays underlines the main themes in modern international affairs, presenting an important context in which to understand recent debates in international political theory in general and speculations about the character of a just world order in particular.

R.B.J. Walker is assistant professor of political science at the University of Victoria. He was Visiting Fellow at the Center of International Studies, Princeton University, from 1977 to 1979 and at Australian National University in 1978. Dr. Walker is author of Political Theory and the Transformation of World Polities (1980).

Studies on a Just World Order -- Preface -- Introduction -- East Wind, West Wind: Civilizations, Hegemonies, and World Orders -- Cultures, Economies, and States -- The Moving Cultural Frontier of World Order: From Monotheism to North-South Relations -- Race in International Relations -- Civilizations and Modes of Production: Conflicts and Convergences -- The Advanced Capitalist State and the Contemporary World Crisis -- Hegemony, Resistance, and Reassertion -- Dependence in a Unified World -- The Occultation of Egypt -- Oppression and Human Liberation: Toward a Third World Utopia -- Ideology and World Order Discourse -- World Politics and Western Reason: Universalism, Pluralism, Hegemony -- On Marxian Thought and the Problem of International Relations -- The Discourse of World Order -- Social Forces, States, and World Orders: Beyond International Relations Theory -- Culture, Ideology, and Peace -- Contemporary Militarism and the Discourse of Dissent -- Peace in an Age of Transformation