A collection of Fritz Kratochwil's essays is self-recommending - his standing as one of the most interesting and challenging of contemporary scholars of International Political Theory is incontestable. The particular merit of this collection is that it contains a number of less well-known and difficult to find pieces as well as some of his most famous contributions to the field. This is a book that deserves a very wide audience. - Chris Brown, Professor of International Relations, London School of Economics
Nobody has done more to expand the scope of IR theory and to explore how politics is enabled and sustained by social order and how order in turn rests on principles of justice. These essays bring together some of Fritz's outstanding essays on these subjects and should be read by anyone with a serious interest in IR theory. - Richard Ned Lebow, James O. Freedman Presidential Professor at Dartmouth College and Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics