Classical Theory in International Relations

Name: Classical Theory in International Relations
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ISBN: 9780521686020

ISBN-10: 0521686024

ISBN-13: 9780521686020

Edition: 2006

Authors: Beate Jahn, Steve Smith, Thomas Biersteker, Chris Brown, Phil Cerny

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Classical political theorists such as Thucydides, Kant, Rousseau, Smith, Hegel, Grotius, Mill, Locke and Clausewitz are often employed to explain and justify contemporary international politics and are seen to constitute the different schools of thought in the discipline. However, traditional interpretations frequently ignore the intellectual and historical context in which these thinkers were writing as well as the lineages through which they came to be appropriated in International Relations. This collection of essays provides alternative interpretations sensitive to these political and intellectual contexts and to the trajectory of their appropriation. The political, sociological,…

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List price: $37.99
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 11/9/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 334
Size: 6.06" wide x 8.94" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

Beate Jahn is a Senior Lecturer in International Relations in the Department of International Relations at the University of Sussex. She is the author of The Cultural Construction of International Relations (2000) and Politik und Moral (1993).



Notes on contributors


Acknowledgements



Classical theory and international relations in context




Intellectual contexts



Pericles, realism and the normative conditions of deliberate action




Immanuel Kant and the democratic peace




'One powerful and enlightened nation': Kant and the quest for a global rule of law




Rousseau and Saint-Pierre's peace project: a critique of 'history of international relations theory'




Political contexts



The Savage Smith and the temporal walls of capitalism




Property and propriety in international relations: the case of John Locke




Classical smoke, classical mirror: Kant and Mill in liberal international relations theory




Lineages



The 'other' in classical political theory: re-contextualizing the cosmopolitan/communitarian debate




Images of Grotius




The Hobbesian theory of international relations: three traditions




Re-appropriating Clausewitz: the neglected dimensions of counter-strategic thought



Index