Political theories of international relations : from Thucydides to the present
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Political theories of international relations : from Thucydides to the present
Oxford University Press, 1998
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [409]-431) and index
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: hbk ISBN 9780198780533
Description
David Boucher uses the ideas of Western philosophy's most significant thinkers to trace the history of political theory in international relations. He examines current conceptions, offering an alternative thematic interpretation of how the most significant thinkers in the Western tradition perceived relations between communities, nations, states, and the discovery of the New World. His organizing principle centres on the idea that the great philosophers were searching for a criterion of state conduct associated with different theories of human nature and which were used for justificatory, appraisive, and injunctive purposes. The author asserts that great thinkers from Thucydides to Marx formulated and applied these criteria to interpret the changing international system and concludes by showing how contemporary theories compare with and extend the themes addressed by their predecessors.
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION. 1: The Character of the Philosophy of International Relations. 2: Empiricism, Universal Moral Order and Historical Reason. PART ONE: EMPIRICAL REALISM. 3: The Primacy of Interest: Classical Greece. 4: Thucydides' History. 5: Machiavelli, Human Nature and the Exemplar of Rome. 6: The Priority of the Secular: The Medieval Inheritance and Machiavelli's Subordination of Ethics to Politics. 7: Inter-Community and International Relations in Hobbes. PART TWO: UNIVERSAL MORAL ORDER. 8: The Priority of Law and Morality: the Greeks and Stoics. 9: Constraining the Causes and Conduct of War: Aquinas, Vitoria, Gentili and Grotius. 10: Pufendorf and the Peron of the State. 11: International and Cosmopolitan Societies. PART THREE: HISTORICAL REASON. 12: Redemption through Independence: Rousseau. 13: Edmund Burke and Historical Reason. 14: Hegel's Theory of International Relations. 15: Marx and the Capitalist World System. 16: Identity, Human Rights and the Extensions of the Moral Community: the Political Theory of International Relations in the Twentieth Century. Bibliography. Index
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: pbk ISBN 9780198780540
Description
David Boucher uses the ideas of western philosophy's most significant thinkers to trace the history of political theory in international relations. He examines current conceptions, offering an alternative thematic interpretation of how the most significant thinkers in the Western tradition perceived relations between communities, nations, states, and the discovery of the new world. His organizing principle centres on the idea that the great philosophers were
searching for a criterion of state conduct associated with different theories of human nature and which were used for justificatory, appraisive, and injunctive purposes. The author asserts that great thinkers from Thucydides to Marx formulated and applied these criteria to interpret the changing
international system and concludes by showing how contemporary theories compare with and extend the themes addressed by their predecessors.
Table of Contents
- INTRODUCTION
- PART ONE: EMPIRICAL REALISM
- PART TWO: UNIVERSAL MORAL ORDER
- PART THREE: HISTORICAL REASON
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