Chris Brown has composed this allegorical adventure from his experience of working for the rail industry in the UK. He was rail research and innovation manager at the UK government's Department for Transport for nine years. This is his debut novel.

Moving from conventional accounts of the society of states to non-state-centric understandings of global politics, this book presents readers with a state-of-the-art overview of international political theory.

Introduction to the Study of International Political Theory
PART ONE: INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY
International Society and International Law
War as an Institution of International Society
Human Rights, Humanitarianism and the Society of States
Challenges to the Society of States
PART TWO: THE EMERGING GLOBAL POLITY
The New Human Rights Regime
Intervention: The 1990s Learning Curve
The Responsibility to Protect
The Ethics of War and Violence in a Post-Westphalian Age
Global Justice
CONCLUSION
The Return of Realism in Theory and Practice