Rights of War and Peace Political Thought and the International Order from Grotius to Kant

Name: Rights of War and Peace Political Thought and the International Order from Grotius to Kant
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ISBN: 9780199248148

ISBN-10: 0199248141

ISBN-13: 9780199248148

Edition: 2001

Authors: Richard Tuck

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The Rights of War and Peace is the first fully historical account of the formative period of modern theories of international law. It sets the scene with an extensive history of the theory of international relations from antiquity down to the seventeenth century. Professor Tuck then examines the arguments over the moral basis for war and international aggression, and links the debates to the writings of the great political theorists such as Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, and Kant. This is not only an account of international law: as Professor Tuck shows, ideas about inter-state relations were central to the formation of modern liberal political theory, for the best example of the kind of agent…

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List price: $66.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/4/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

Richard Tuck is Frank G. Thomson Professor of Government, Harvard University.



Preface


Introduction



Humanism



Scholasticism



Hugo Grotius



Thomas Hobbes



Samuel Pufendorf



From Locke to Vattel



Rousseau and Kant


Conclusion


Index