What is meant by international society? On what principle is the notion of international society based? In this book James Mayall addresses these questions and sheds important new light upon the issues of nation and international society.

Nationalism and international society will be of interest to specialists and students of international relations with special reference to nationalism and sovereignty, and to modern historians of world order, decolonisation and economic nationalism.

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. The search for the international system: the problem of theory
2. The society of states
3. Nationalism and the creation of states
4. Nationalism and the international order
5. Economic nationalism and the liberal world order
6. The new economic nationalism
7. Post-colonial nationalism
8. The third world and international society
Conclusion
Notes
Index.