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: 9780521575706
• ISBN10: 0521575702
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-05-20
• 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

Acknowledgements	ix
Introduction	1	(16)
Ancient thought (500 BCE-312 CD)	17	(78)
From History of the Peloponnesian War	34	(27)
Thucydides
From The Politics	61	(22)
Aristotle
From On Duties	83	(3)
Cicero
From Meditations	86	(4)
Marcus Aurelius
From The Epistles	90	(5)
Plato
Late antiquity and the early middle ages (312-1000)	95	(82)
Anonymous From The Teaching of the Lord to the Gentiles through the Twelve Apostles or The Didache	111	(4)
From Tricennial Orations	115	(4)
Eusebius
Augustine of Hippo From The City of God against the Pagans	119	(17)
Constantine Porphyrogenitus From De Administrando Imperio	136	(12)
From The Political Regime	148	(22)
Al-Farabi
From The Healing	170	(4)
Avicenna
From Logic	174	(3)
Moses Maimonides
International relations in Christendom	177	(66)
John of Paris From on Royal and Papal Power	191	(7)
From Monarchy	198	(6)
Dante Alighieri
From On Secular Authority	204	(9)
Martin Luther
From Summa Theologiae	213	(8)
Thomas Aquinas
From ``Dulce Bellum Inexpertis''	221	(10)
Desiderius Erasmus
From ``On the American Indians''	231	(12)
Francisco De Vitoria
The modern European state and system of states	243	(68)
From The Prince	257	(5)
Niccolo Machiavelli
From The Discourses	262	(8)
From Six Book of the Commonwealth	270	(6)
Jean Bodin
From on the Manner of Negotiating with Princes	276	(5)
Francis De Callieres
From on Questions of Public Law	281	(5)
Cornelius Van Bynkershoek
From Letters of Pacificus	286	(6)
Alexander Hamilton
From Letters on a Regicide Peace	292	(9)
Edmund Burke
Francis De Salignac De La Mothe Fenelon From ``On the Necessity of Forming Alliances''	301	(6)
``The True Concept of a Balance of Power''	307	(4)
Friedrich Von Gentz
The emergence of international law	311	(68)
From The Law of War and Peace	325	(10)
Hugo Grotius
From Leviathan	335	(6)
Thomas Hobbes
From on the Duties of Man and Citizen	341	(8)
Samuel Pufendorf
From ``On the Law of Nations''	349	(7)
Samuel Rachel
From The Law of Nations Treated According to a Scientific Method	356	(14)
Christian Von Wolff
From The Law of Nations or Principles of Natural Law	370	(9)
Emmerich De Vattel
The Enlightenment	379	(78)
The Abbe De Saint-Pierre From A Project for Settling an Everlasting Peace in Europe	394	(5)
From The Spirit of the Laws	399	(8)
Montesquieu
From of the Balance of Power	407	(3)
David Hume
From The Wealth of Nations	410	(6)
Adam Smith
From The State of War	416	(9)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
From Abstract and Judgement of Saint-Pierre's Project for Perpetual Peace	425	(3)
From Essay on Theory and Practice	428	(4)
Immanuel Kant
From Perpetual Peace	432	(18)
From The Metaphysical Elements of Right	450	(7)
State and nation in nineteenth-century international political theory	457	(62)
From Elements of the Philosophy of Right	470	(6)
G. W. F. Hegel
From on the Duties of Man	476	(10)
G. Mazzini
From ``A Few Words on Non-Intervention''	486	(8)
John Stuart Mill
From Politics	494	(12)
H. Von Treitschke
From ``Patriotism in the Perfect State''	506	(13)
B. Bosanquet
International relations and industrial society	519	(66)
From The Wealth of Nations	532	(3)
Adam Smith
From ``On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation''	535	(3)
David Ricardo
From The Political Writings of Richard Cobden	538	(12)
Richard Cobden
Friedrich List From The National System of Political Economy	550	(11)
From Finance Capital	561	(11)
Rudolf Hilferding
From ``The Communist Manifesto''	572	(3)
Karl Marx
Friedrich Engels
From ``The Sociology of Imperialisms''	575	(10)
Joseph Schumpeter
List of references	585	(11)
Index	596