How can we set limits to state sovereignty and power without lapsing into a form of utopianism, directed towards an end point, that entails the paternalistic and imperialistic policies of cosmopolitanism?
Trust is a valuable, though elusive, concept in International Politics. It is vital, not only to establish fruitful cooperation, but also because it enables actors to minimize the main feature of this realm: uncertainty.
When asking what has caused a particular war, we are in a way constructing these causes. There are no such things as objective causes but only those that we construct in hindsight; in the future.
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