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Author: Howard L. Williams
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Published: 1992
Total Pages: 168
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIntroduces international relations as a theme in political theory. The author takes 11 philosophical and political theorists and, through discussion of their thinking, develops the theme that classical political theory can offer an understanding of international relations in practice.
Author: Charles R. Beitz
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 1999-07-21
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780691009155
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn one, international relations is a Hobbesian state of nature in which moral judgments are entirely inappropriate, and in the other, states are analogous to persons in domestic society in having rights of autonomy that insulate them from external moral assessment and political interference.
Author: Chris Brown
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 737
ISBN-13: 019874692X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe essential volume for all those working on International Political Theory and related areas.
Author: David Boucher
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 443
ISBN-13: 9780198780540
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBoucher uses ideas of Western philosophy's most significant thinkers to trace the history of political theory in international relations. He ends by showing how theories compare with and extend the themes addressed by their predecessors.
Author: Duncan Bell
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2010-12-02
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 0191565040
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPolitical realism dominated the field of International Relations during the Cold War. Since then, however, its fortunes have been mixed: pushed onto the backfoot during 1990s, it has in recent years retuned to the centre of scholarly debate. Despite its prominence in International Relations, however, realism plays only a marginal role in contemporary international political theory. It is often associated with a form of crude realpolitik that ignores the ethical dimensions of political life. The contributors to this book explore alternative understandings of realism, seeing it as a diverse and complex mode of political and ethical theorising rather than simply a "value-neutral" social scientific theory or the unreflective defence of the national interest. A number of the chapters offer critical interpretations of key figures in the canon of twentieth century realism, including Hans Morgenthau, E. H. Carr, and Reinhold Niebuhr. Others seek to widen the lens through which realism is usually viewed, exploring the writings of Martin Heidegger, Hannah Arendt, and Leo Strauss. Finally, a number of the contributors engage with general issues in international political theory, including the meaning and value of pessimism, the relationship between power and ethics, the purpose of normative political theory, and what might constitute political "reality." Straddling International Relations and political theory, this book makes a significant contribution to both fields.
Author: Nicolas Guilhot
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 0231152671
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 1954 Conference on Theory, sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation, featured a 'who's who' of scholars and practitioners debating what would become the foundations of international relations theory. Assembling his own team of experts, the editor revisits a seminal event in the discipline.
Author: Howard L. Williams
Publisher: UBC Press
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9780774804394
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis reader has been assembled in response to increasing dissatisfaction among a growing number of international relations scholars with the currently dominant theory of realism as well as in recognition of the large number of newly independent states which are having to write new constitutions and develop foreign relations. The book includes excerpts and essays from political theory and international relations which provide a starting point for further study of these subjects. It draws together writings representing two distinct traditions and demonstrates their interconnections. In political theory, excerpts are drawn from classical texts which have an important bearing on problems of international relations. In international relations, the collection includes essays which have had a seminal influence on the development of this discipline.
Author: Chris Brown
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2002-04-25
Total Pages: 905
ISBN-13: 1107393612
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis unique collection presents texts in international relations from Ancient Greece to the First World War. Major writers such as Thucydides, Augustine, Aquinas, Machiavelli, Grotius, Kant and John Stuart Mill are represented by extracts of their key works; less well-known international theorists including John of Paris, Cornelius van Bynkershoek and Friedrich List are also included. Fifty writers are anthologised in what is the largest such collection currently available. The texts, most of which are substantial extracts, are organised into broadly chronological sections, each of which is headed by an introduction that places the work in its historical and philosophical context. Ideal for both students and scholars, the volume also includes biographies and guides to further reading.
Author: R. B. J. Walker
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780521421195
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this book Rob Walker offers an original analysis of the relationship between twentieth-century theories of international relations, and the political theory of civil society since the early modern period. He views theories of international relations both as an ideological expression of the modern state, and as a clear indication of the difficulties of thinking about a world politics characterized by profound spatiotemporal accelerations. International relations theories should be seen, the author argues, more as aspects of contemporary world politics than as explanations of contemporary world politics. These theories are examined in the light of recent debates about modernity and post-modernity, sovereignty and political identity, and the limits of modern social and political theory. This book is a major contribution to the field of critical international relations, and will be of interest to social and political theorists and political scientists, as well as students and scholars of international relations.
Author: Hartmut Behr
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2009-12-18
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 0230248381
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContemporary theory of international politics faces a twofold problem: the critical engagement with legacies of national power politics in connection to 20th Century International Relations and the regeneration of notions of humanity. This book contributes to this engagement by a genealogy of thoughts on war, peace, and ethics.
