since the end of the cold war the research agenda of international society has expanded and changed to a degree. the central normative concern has moved at least some distance away from order and towards justice in world politics. not only has there been a shift of scholarly concern in the direction of justice. but there has also been a movement away from a concern about international justice and towards a concern about human justice. there has also been an enlargement of the subject to include issues of world justice-such as environmental protection or the law of the sea-and the question of what shape international society might take in the future if state sovereignty ceases to be the foundation institution of world politics as it has been for the past three or four centuries.