International Relations in Political Thought: Texts from the Ancient Greeks to the First World War

by Edited by Chris Brown , Terry Nardin , Nicholas Rengger

• ISBN13: 9780521573306
• ISBN10: 0521573300
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-05-27
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This 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 Biography

Chris Brown is Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics Terry Nardin is Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Nicholas Rengger is Professor of Political Theory and International Relations at St. Andrews University

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

2. Classical antiquity: Thucydides, from History of the Peloponnesian War

Aristotle, from The Politics

Cicero, from On Duties

Marcus Aurelius, from Meditations

Plato, from Plato's Epistles

3. Late antiquity and its legacy: anonymous, from The Didache

Eusebius, from Tricennial Orations

Augustine, from The City of God

Al-Farabi, from The Political Regime

Constantine, from De Administrando Imperio

Avicenna, from The Healing

Moses Maimonides, from Logic

4. International relations in Christendom: John of Paris, from On Royal and Papal Power

Dante, from Monarchy

Luther, from On Secular Authority

Aquinas, from Summa Theologiae

Erasmus, from 'Dulce Bellum Inexpertis'

de Vitoria, from 'On the American Indians'

5. The modern European state and system of states: Machiavelli, from The Prince and The Discourses

Bodin, from Six Books of the Commonwealth

de Calliè

res, from On the Manner of Negotiating with Princes

Cornelius van Bynkershoek, from On Questions of Public Law

Alexander Hamilton, from Letters of Pacificus

Burke, from Letters on a Regicide Peace

Franç

ois de Salignac de la Mothe Fé

nelon, from 'Examen de conscience sur les devoirs de la royauté

'

Friedrich von Gentz, from 'The True Concept of a Balance of Power'

6. The emergence of International Law: Grotius, from The Law of War and Peace

Hobbes, from Leviathan

Samuel Pufendorf, from On the Duties of Man and Citizen

Samuel Rachel, from On the Law of Nations

Christian Wolff, from The Law of Nations treated according to a Scientific Method

Emmerich de Vattel, from The Law of Nations or Principles of Natural Law

7. The Enlightenment: the Abbé

de Saint-Pierre, from Project on Perpetual Peace

Montesquieu, from The Spirit of the Laws

Hume, from Of the Balance of Power

Adam Smith, from The Wealth of Nations

Rousseau, from The State of War and Abstract and Judgement

Kant, from Essay on Theory and Practice and Perpetual Peace

8. State and Nation: Hegel, from Elements of the Philosophy of Right

Mazzini, from 'Duties of Man'

Mill, from 'A Few Words on Non-intervention'

Von Treitschke, from Politics

Bosanquet, from 'Patriotism in the Perfect State'

9. Industrial Society: Adam Smith, from Wealth of Nations

David Ricardo, from 'Principles of Political Economy and Taxation'

Richard Cobden, from Political Writings

Friedrich List, from The National System of Political Economy

Rudolf Hilferding, from Finance Capital

Marx and Engels, from 'The Communist Manifesto'

Joseph Schumpeter, from Imperialism and Social Classes

Bibliography.