Political Theories of International Relations From Thucydides to the Present [Paperback]

David Boucher uses the ideas of western philosophy's most significant thinkers to trace the history of political theory in international relations. His new thematic approach challenges current conceptions of how relations between communities, nations, and states transformed.

INTRODUCTION
1. The Character of the Philosophy of International Relations
2. Empiricism, Universal Moral Order and Historical Reason
PART ONE: EMPIRICAL REALISM
3. The Primacy of Interest: Classical Greece
4. Thucydides'History
5. Machiavelli, Human Nature and the Exemplar of Rome
6. The Priority of the Secular: The Medieval Inheritance and Machiavelli's Subordination of Ethics to Politics
7. Inter-Community and International Relations in Hobbes
PART TWO: UNIVERSAL MORAL ORDER
8. The Priority of Law and Morality: the Greeks and Stoics
9. Constraining the Causes and Conduct of War: Aquinas, Vitoria, Gentili and Grotius
10. Pufendorf and the Peron of the State
11. International and Cosmopolitan Societies
PART THREE: HISTORICAL REASON
12. Redemption through Independence: Rousseau
13. Edmund Burke and Historical Reason
14. Hegel's Theory of International Relations
15. Marx and the Capitalist World System
16. Identity, Human Rights and the Extensions of the Moral Community: the Political Theory of International Relations in the Twentieth Century
Bibliography
Index