Sanahuja, J. A. (Ed.) (2024). The International Society: Ibero-American Perspectives. Essays in Honor of Celestino del Arenal Moyúa. Madrid. Fundación Carolina. 355 pp.

Abstract

The international society has undergone multiple mutations, as Antonio Truyol calls them, which correspond to a well-defined spatial-temporal context. This, in turn, invites reflection on when to consider the existence of the international realm—whether from Antiquity with the Greek city-states and the Peloponnesian War, or from the emergence of the Nation-State in 1648 with the end of the Thirty Years' War and the signing of the Peace Treaties of Osnabrück and Münster. Regardless of the choice, it is important to emphasize that these changes create adjustments in the prevailing dynamics, a pattern that continues to this day and highlights the need for a thorough analysis of the subject matter in the discipline of International Relations, as it is in constant transformation, especially with the myriad interconnections resulting from globalization, which confirm what Ekkehart Krippendorff referred to as 'the shrinking of the world.'