(Hardback)

This book examines the geographical imaginaries that underpinned international efforts to create the first international organizations along the Rhine, Danube, and Congo Rivers. In doing so, these imaginaries helped constitute the early international order in the nineteenth century and continues to underpin modern global governance today.

(Paperback)

The ideal river offers a remarkable account of how three historic attempts to establish international commissions on transboundary rivers in the nineteenth century shaped our modern international order.