Kees van der Pijl is a Fellow of the Centre for Global Political Economy and Professor Emeritus at the University of Sussex. His books include The Disciple of Western Supremacy (Pluto, 2014) The Foreign Encounter in Myth and Religion (Pluto, 2010), the Deutscher prize-winning Nomads, Empires, States (Pluto, 2007).

'Challenges us to understand the world in its full complexity and contradictory actuality'

• PrefaceAcknowledgements 1. Empire and Nationality in the Pax Britannica2. The Crusade for Democracy and World Politics 3. Cold War Discipline in International Relations4. The Pax Americana and National Liberation 5. The Crisis of International Discipline ReferencesIndex

Kees van der Pijl is a Fellow of the Centre for Global Political Economy and Professor Emeritus at the University of Sussex. His books include The Disciple of Western Supremacy (Pluto, 2014) The Foreign Encounter in Myth and Religion (Pluto, 2010), the Deutscher prize-winning Nomads, Empires, States (Pluto, 2007).

'Challenges us to understand the world in its full complexity and contradictory actuality'

• PrefaceAcknowledgements 1. Empire and Nationality in the Pax Britannica2. The Crusade for Democracy and World Politics 3. Cold War Discipline in International Relations4. The Pax Americana and National Liberation 5. The Crisis of International Discipline ReferencesIndex

Kees van der Pijl is a Fellow of the Centre for Global Political Economy and Professor Emeritus at the University of Sussex. His books include The Disciple of Western Supremacy (Pluto, 2014) The Foreign Encounter in Myth and Religion (Pluto, 2010), the Deutscher prize-winning Nomads, Empires, States (Pluto, 2007).

'Challenges us to understand the world in its full complexity and contradictory actuality'

• PrefaceAcknowledgements 1. Empire and Nationality in the Pax Britannica2. The Crusade for Democracy and World Politics 3. Cold War Discipline in International Relations4. The Pax Americana and National Liberation 5. The Crisis of International Discipline ReferencesIndex