Hobbesian Internationalism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hobbesian Internationalism write by Silviya Lechner. This book was released on 2019-11-22. Hobbesian Internationalism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book sets out to re-examine the foundations of Thomas Hobbes’s political philosophy, and to develop a Hobbesian normative theory of international relations. Its central thesis is that two concepts – anarchy and authority – constitute the core of Hobbes's political philosophy whose aim is to justify the state. The Hobbesian state is a type of authority (juridical, public, coercive, and supreme) which emerges under conditions of anarchy ('state of nature'). A state-of-nature argument makes a difference because it justifies authority without appeal to moral obligation. The book shows that the closest analogue of a Hobbesian authority in international relations is Kant's confederation of free states, where states enjoy 'anarchical' (equal) freedom. At present, this crucial form of freedom is being threatened by economic processes of globalisation, and by the resurgence of private authority across state borders.
Before Anarchy
Before Anarchy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Before Anarchy write by Theodore Christov. This book was released on 2016-01-11. Before Anarchy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How did the 'Hobbesian state of nature' and the 'discourse of anarchy' - separated by three centuries - come to be seen as virtually synonymous? Before Anarchy offers a novel account of Hobbes's interpersonal and international state of nature and rejects two dominant views. In one, international relations is a warlike Hobbesian anarchy, and in the other, state sovereignty eradicates the state of nature. In combining the contextualist method in the history of political thought and the historiographical method in international relations theory, Before Anarchy traces Hobbes's analogy between natural men and sovereign states and its reception by Pufendorf, Rousseau and Vattel in showing their intellectual convergence with Hobbes. Far from defending a 'realist' international theory, the leading political thinkers of early modernity were precursors of the most enlightened liberal theory of international society today. By demolishing twentieth-century anachronisms, Before Anarchy bridges the divide between political theory, international relations and intellectual history.
Thomas Hobbes's Conception of Peace
Thomas Hobbes's Conception of Peace - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Thomas Hobbes's Conception of Peace write by Maximilian Jaede. This book was released on 2018-03-19. Thomas Hobbes's Conception of Peace available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores Hobbes’s ideas about the internal pacification of states, the prospect of a peaceful international order, and the connections between civil and international peace. It questions the notion of a negative Hobbesian peace, which is based on the mere suppression of violence, and emphasises his positive vision of everlasting peace in a well-governed commonwealth. The book also highlights Hobbes’s ideas about international coexistence and cooperation, which he considers integral to good government. In examining Hobbes’s conception of peace, it provides a fresh perspective on his international political thought. The findings also have wider implications for the ways in which we think about Hobbes’s relationship to the realist and liberal traditions of international thought, and will appeal to students and scholars of political theory and international relations.
The Hobbesian Theory of International Conflict
The Hobbesian Theory of International Conflict - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Hobbesian Theory of International Conflict write by Raino Malnes. This book was released on 1993. The Hobbesian Theory of International Conflict available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book proposes a theory of international conflict based on Thomas Hobbes' theory of social conflict. It examines in detail his premises, questioning their applicability to relations among states. Through this discussion, a new version of "political realism" emerges, more systematic and logically explicit than previous statements of realism. The Hobbesian theory of conflict is contrasted to works in the same tradition--from Thucydides' account of the Peloponnesian War to Kenneth Waltz's system-theory. It also explores other perspectives on international relations, like Kant's theory of the relationship between democracy and foreign policy. The work shows how the Hobbesian theory provides a basis for evaluating the realist ambition of constructing a general theory of international politics.
British International Thinkers from Hobbes to Namier
British International Thinkers from Hobbes to Namier - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook British International Thinkers from Hobbes to Namier write by I. Hall. This book was released on 2009-12-07. British International Thinkers from Hobbes to Namier available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book will be the first to examine the variety of British international thought, its continuities and innovations. The editors combine new essays on familiar thinkers such as Thomas Hobbes and John Locke with important but neglected writers and publicists such as Travers Twiss, James Bryce, and Lowes Dickinson.
