This book examines some of the most important issues on today's international agenda. By tracing the logic of the Westphalian system of sovereign nation-states, its growth and development over the past three hundred years as the organizing mode for the entire world, and the threats to is continued ability to provide the kind of ordering framework needed today, Professor Miller provides the reader with the necessary tools to understand the chaotic universe of competing social and political forces as a world order system, one with a value structure that both shapes international behavior and makes possible its evaluation. The connections between power and values in human society, between power and authority, the relationship between politics and law among the subjects of his inquiry. Professor Miller also systematically explores the principal world order problems of international warfare and the nuclear threat, global economic inequality , human rights deprivations and the planetary resource scarcity and environmental degradation. The ways in which issues are being affected by current sociopolitical developments are investigated, as are the possibilities for implementing preferable alternatives and thus improving the human condition in all nations.