Political Theories of International Relations: From Thucydides to the Present / Edition 1

by David Boucher

Overview

David Boucher uses the ideas of western philosophy's most significant thinkers to trace the history of political theory in international relations. His new thematic approach challenges current conceptions of how relations between communities, nations, and states transformed.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198780540
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	12/10/1998
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	456
Product dimensions:	9.18(w) x 6.06(h) x 1.05(d)
Lexile:	1540L (what's this?)

About the Author

University of Wales, Swansea

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION1. The Character of the Philosophy of International Relations2. Empiricism, Universal Moral Order and Historical ReasonPART ONE: EMPIRICAL REALISM3. The Primacy of Interest: Classical Greece4. Thucydides' History5. Machiavelli, Human Nature and the Exemplar of Rome6. The Priority of the Secular: The Medieval Inheritance and Machiavelli's Subordination of Ethics to Politics7. Inter-Community and International Relations in HobbesPART TWO: UNIVERSAL MORAL ORDER8. The Priority of Law and Morality: the Greeks and Stoics9. Constraining the Causes and Conduct of War: Aquinas, Vitoria, Gentili and Grotius10. Pufendorf and the Peron of the State11. International and Cosmopolitan SocietiesPART THREE: HISTORICAL REASON12. Redemption through Independence: Rousseau13. Edmund Burke and Historical Reason14. Hegel's Theory of International Relations15. Marx and the Capitalist World System16. Identity, Human Rights and the Extensions of the Moral Community: the Political Theory of International Relations in the Twentieth CenturyBibliographyIndex