A History of International Political Theory Ontologies of the International

by Behr, Hartmut

• ISBN13: 9780230524866
• ISBN10: 0230524869
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-01-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Contemporary 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.

Author Biography

 He has published widely in international journals such as the European Journal of International Relations, Review of International Studies, Geopolitics, Encyclopaedia of Geography and International Political Economy.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
The problematic and research questions	p. 1
Implications	p. 5
Conceptual remarks	p. 11
The structure of the book	p. 17
Universalism in Greek and Roman Antiquity and Christian Political Philosophy
Greek and Roman Antiquity	p. 23
Thucydides	p. 23
Cicero	p. 35
Christian Political Pragmatism and Ethical Universalism - Aurelius Augustine and Thomas Aquinas	p. 50
Prolegomena	p. 50
Political pragmatism in Augustine and Aquinas	p. 53
Transcendental universalism and the intelligibility of order: Peace and justice	p. 60
Universalistic Thinking from Early Modern Times to Enlightenment
Universalistic Thinking in Christian Legal Philosophy - Bartolomé de las Casas and Francisco de Vitoria	p. 75
Prolegomena	p. 75
Universalistic human rights and their extension beyond Europe	p. 80
Jurisdiction as landmark and guarantor for universal human rights and just war	p. 88
Universalistic Frameworks in Early Modern Political Theory	p. 100
Niccolo Machiavelli	p. 100
Thomas Hobbes	p. 115
Immanuel Kant	p. 130
The Emergence of Particularism in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Philosophies of 'National Interest'	p. 141
Hegel on 'international law'	p. 141
National monumental historiography	p. 152
Geopolitical thought	p. 161
Manufacturing Inter-National Cooperation - The English School	p. 177
Hegelian legacies and the 'international system'	p. 177
From Hegel to international cooperation?	p. 186
The Triumph of Particularism in Twentieth-Century International Relations Theory
Neo-Realism and the 'Scientification' of International Political Theory	p. 197
Solipsistic ontology and epistemology	p. 198
The inevitability of conflict	p. 207
'Misreadings' in IR: Reassessing Morgenthau, Ideology Critique, and the Reification Problem	p. 210
The 'realism'-neo-realism 'unity'	p. 211
Explaining misreadings: Ideology critique and the reification of 'the' political	p. 219
Instead of A Conclusion - Towards Renewed Ontology(ies)
Universal, Universalistic - Universalized	p. 229
A Loss of Ethics, or the Reinvention of Universal Thinking in Global Politics?	p. 238
Outline of an ethics of humanity in the international/world/global	p. 241
Questions towards discourses on/of global politics	p. 245
Notes	p. 247
Bibliography	p. 272
Name Index	p. 293
Subject Index	p. 297
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