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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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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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