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Author Boucher, David

Title Political theories of international relations : from Thucydides to the present / David Boucher
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1998

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Description xii, 443 pages ; 24 cm
Contents 1. The Character of the Political Theory of International Relations. 2. The Three Traditions: Empiricism, Universal Moral Order, and Historical Reason -- Pt. I. Empirical Realism. 3. The Primacy of Interest: Classical Greece. 4. Thucydides' Peloponnesian War. 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 the Political Philosophy of Hobbes -- Pt. II. 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 Person of the State. 11. International and Cosmopolitan Societies: Locke, Vattel, and Kant -- Pt. III. Historical Reason. 12. Redemption through Independence: Rousseau's Theory of International Relations. 13. Edmund Burke and Historical Reason in International Relations
14. Hegel's Theory of International Relations. 15. Marx and the Capitalist World System. 16. Identity, Human Rights, and the Extension of the Moral Community: The Political Theory of International Relations in the Twentieth Century
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [409]-431) and index
Subject International relations -- History.
International relations -- Philosophy.
LC no. 99179454
ISBN 0198780532 (acid-free paper)
0198780540 (paperback: acid-free paper)