About the Book: Empires of The Mind: International Society and the Search for a
New Order
Since the end of the First World War there have been three attempts to reform
the international order and to break the age-old hold of empire, hierarchy and
realpolitik over international society, The Treaty of Versailles established the
League of Nations and sought to make the world not only safe for democracy, but
for the principle of national self-determination. In 1945 the United Nations
Organisation was created and to the earlier objectives was added a system of
economic governance and regulation. In 1991 the stated goal was to democratise
the