Basic texts in international relations : the evolution of ideas about international society
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Basic texts in international relations : the evolution of ideas about international society
Macmillan Academic and Professional, 1992
- : hc
- : pbk
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This text combines passages from major writers on international relations over the ages, together with a brief commentary on each. The collection is divided into three main sections - the individual, the state and the society of states - the three main alternative ways of conceiving the subject.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 The nature of man: The ancient Chinese view
- the ancient Greek view
- the Christian view
- the philosophers' view
- the citizen as a restraint on war
- the citizen as a stimulus to war
- class consciousness as a restraint on war
- personal aggressiveness as a source of war
- social influences affecting the desposition to war. Part 2 The nature of states: the interest of states
- the competitiveness of states
- the duties of states
- reasons of state
- the state's right to intervene
- the nationhood of states
- the imperialism of states
- geographical influences on states
- the strategic interests of states
- a state's search for peace
- the state's search for power
- the motives of states
- the decisions of states
- the defence of the state
- the state and the society of states
- the balance of power
- systems of universal peace
- a system of great power consultation
- maintaining the balance by diplomacy
- a system of collective security
- the balance of power in the modern world
- a system of functional co-operation
- the international system approach
- transnational relations
- the world society approach
- the international society approach
- the changing conception of international society.
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