Boucher, David,

Political theories of international relations : from Thucydides to the present / David Boucher. - xii, 443 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-431) and index.

Introduction -- The Character of the Philosophy of International Relations -- Empiricism, Universal Moral Order and Historical Reason -- Empirical Realism -- The Primacy of Interest: Classical Greece -- Thucydides' History -- Machiavelli, Human Nature and the Exemplar of Rome -- The Priority of the Secular: The Medieval Inheritance and Machiavelli's Subordination of Ethics to Politics -- Inter-Community and International Relations in Hobbes -- Universal Moral Order -- The Priority of Law and Morality: the Greeks and Stoics -- Constraining the Causes and Conduct of War: Aquinas, Vitoria, Gentili and Grotius -- Pufendorf and the Peron of the State -- International and Cosmopolitan Societies -- Historical Reason -- Redemption through Independence: Rousseau -- Edmund Burke and Historical Reason -- Hegel's Theory of International Relations -- Marx and the Capitalist World System -- Identity, Human Rights and the Extensions of the Moral Community: the Political Theory of International Relations in the Twentieth Century -- Bibliography -- Index. 1. 2. Part One. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Part Two. 8. 9. 10. 11. Part Three. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16.

0198780540 9780198780540 0198780532 9780198780533

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International relations--Philosophy
International relations--History

JZ1305. / B68 1998

327.101