Chapter 1. Inroduction: A new global order. Drawing the contours of globalism ; The mid-century discourse of globalism ; The ideologues of globalism ; Outline of the book
Chapter 2. Reimagining the state in a global space. The intellectual worlds of Raymond Aron and David Mitrany ; Critique of ideology and nationalism ; The state and a new world order ; Europe, United and divided ; E.H. Carr and political order in the global age
Chapter 3. Geopolitics and regional order. Owen Lattimore, Nicholas J. Spykman, and the science of geopolitics ; Isaiah Bowman, Karl Haushofer, and geopolitics in transition ; Lattimore and Spykman on land, sea, and air power ; The geopolitics of scale ; After Frederick Jackson Turner : the frontier in international relations ; Tripolarity ; The geopolitics of regional democracy ; Geopolitics and the post-war political space
Chapter 4. The end of imperial federalism? Federal union : lobbying for a democratic federation ; Lionel Curtis's Sermon on the Mount ; Clarence Streit : 'We need union now' ; Frederick Lugard, Norman Bentwich, and the boundaries of the Commonwealth
Chapter 5. Federal democracy for welfare. Lionel Robbins and the politics of economic federalism ; Barbara Wootton's democratic plan for freedom ; Friedrich Hayek and the challenge of liberal federalism ; The emancipatory hope of democratic federalism
Chapter 6. Writing a world constitution : the Chicago committee and the new world order ; Richard McKeon, Giuseppe Antonio Borgese, and the establishment of the Chicago committee ; The unity and division of sovereignty ; The problem of representation ; Decolonising the non-West ; Pluralism and human rights ; The preliminary draft of a world constitution ; Hans Kelsen and the critics of the constitution ; The limits of constitutionalism
Chapter 7. Perceptions of science and global order. World government or world destruction : H.G. Wells responds to the crisis ; Charles E. Merriam, scientific objectivity, and political judgment ; Michael Polanyi and the liberal dynamic order ; Lewis Mumford's remedy to global madness ; A turn to faith
Chapter 8. Catholicism, pluralism, and global democracy. Luigi Sturzo, Jacques Maritain, and democracy in exile ; Political pluralism and the challenge of order ; Maritain, Sturzo, and Aron propose federalism against Machiavellianism ; Global democracy and Catholic morality ; Global 'pluralism(s) of fear'
Chapter 9. Conclusion: The genealogy of globalism. The public role of intellectuals ; The globalist ideology and the globalised future.
