Hobbesian Internationalism
Hobbesian Internationalism

Author: Silviya Lechner

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2019-11-22

Total Pages: 205

ISBN-13: 3030306933

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This book sets out to re-examine the foundations of Thomas Hobbes’s political philosophy, and to develop a Hobbesian normative theory of international relations. Its central thesis is that two concepts – anarchy and authority – constitute the core of Hobbes's political philosophy whose aim is to justify the state. The Hobbesian state is a type of authority (juridical, public, coercive, and supreme) which emerges under conditions of anarchy ('state of nature'). A state-of-nature argument makes a difference because it justifies authority without appeal to moral obligation. The book shows that the closest analogue of a Hobbesian authority in international relations is Kant's confederation of free states, where states enjoy 'anarchical' (equal) freedom. At present, this crucial form of freedom is being threatened by economic processes of globalisation, and by the resurgence of private authority across state borders.

British International Thinkers from Hobbes to Namier
British International Thinkers from Hobbes to Namier

Author: I. Hall

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2009-12-07

Total Pages: 255

ISBN-13: 0230101739

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This book will be the first to examine the variety of British international thought, its continuities and innovations. The editors combine new essays on familiar thinkers such as Thomas Hobbes and John Locke with important but neglected writers and publicists such as Travers Twiss, James Bryce, and Lowes Dickinson.

Thomas Hobbes's Conception of Peace
Thomas Hobbes's Conception of Peace

Author: Maximilian Jaede

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-03-19

Total Pages: 114

ISBN-13: 3319760661

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This book explores Hobbes’s ideas about the internal pacification of states, the prospect of a peaceful international order, and the connections between civil and international peace. It questions the notion of a negative Hobbesian peace, which is based on the mere suppression of violence, and emphasises his positive vision of everlasting peace in a well-governed commonwealth. The book also highlights Hobbes’s ideas about international coexistence and cooperation, which he considers integral to good government. In examining Hobbes’s conception of peace, it provides a fresh perspective on his international political thought. The findings also have wider implications for the ways in which we think about Hobbes’s relationship to the realist and liberal traditions of international thought, and will appeal to students and scholars of political theory and international relations.

The International Thought of Martin Wight
The International Thought of Martin Wight

Author: I. Hall

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2006-09-03

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 1403983526

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Martin Wight (1913-1972) was one of the most original and enigmatic international thinkers of the twentieth century. This new study, drawing upon Wright's published writings and unpublished papers, examines his work on international relations in the light of his wider thought, his religious beliefs, and his understanding of history.

International Political Theory after Hobbes
International Political Theory after Hobbes

Author: R. Prokhovnik

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2011-01-05

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 0230304737

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The idea of international political theory after Hobbes is a timely and lively focus through which to raise key questions about international politics, and to set up dialogues between historical political theory and contemporary theories of international relations about the legacy of Hobbes in international politics. The move by political theorists towards consideration of the international realm and the consequent blurring of the distinction between domestic and international politics over recent years has been marked. In the light of these changes, the role of Hobbes in the dominant realist theory of International Relations requires urgent re-examination. This book makes an important and distinctive contribution to the argument that international political theory is moving beyond the reading of Hobbes as a founding theorist of the modern state in an inter-state system perpetuated by orthodox International Relations. The volume brings together a set of internationally-respected researchers with an expertise on Hobbes’ views on international relations in the context of the history of political thought, Hobbesian realism, and on Hobbes and contemporary international political theory.

Nationalism and Internationalism in the Post-Cold War Era
Nationalism and Internationalism in the Post-Cold War Era

Author: Kjell Goldmann

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 0415238900

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Mapping the post-Cold War political landscape, this text puts forward a critical reading of the term "post-Cold War" and what it implies, the changes in the world market economy and the strengthening of regional units.

Hospitality and World Politics
Hospitality and World Politics

Author: Gideon Baker

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2013-02-07

Total Pages: 263

ISBN-13: 1137290005

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A long neglected concept in the field of international relations and political theory, hospitality provides a new framework for analysing many of the challenges in world politics today, from the search for peaceable relations between states to asylum and refugee crises.

Hobbes Against Friendship
Hobbes Against Friendship

Author: Gabriella Slomp

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2022-03-31

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 3030953157

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This book explores why and how Thomas Hobbes – the 17th century founder of political science -- contributed to the modern marginalisation of ‘friendship’, a concept that stood in the foreground of ancient moral and political thought and that is currently undergoing a revival. The study shows that Hobbes did not question the occurrence of friendship; rather, he rejected friendship as an explanatory and normative principle of peace and cooperation. Hobbes’s stance was influential because it captured the spirit of modernity- its individualism, nominalism, practical scepticism, and materialism. Hobbes’s legacy has a bearing on contemporary debates about civic, international and global friendship.

Hobbes, Realism and the Tradition of International Law
Hobbes, Realism and the Tradition of International Law

Author: C. Covell

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2004-03-31

Total Pages: 201

ISBN-13: 0230000630

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Charles Covell considers the poltical thought of Thomas Hobbes in relation to the tradition of international law, and with the intention to challenge the reading of Hobbes as the exponent of the realist standpoint in international thought and practice. The relation of Hobbes to international law is explained through attention to the place that he occupies among the modern secular natural law thinkers, such as Grotius, Pufendorf, Wolff and Vattel, who founded the modern system of the law of nations.