Classical theory in international relations

✍ Scribed by Beate Jahn

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 335
• Series: Cambridge Studies in International Relations
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Classical political theorists such as Thucydides, Kant, Rousseau, Smith, Hegel, Grotius, Mill, Locke and Clausewitz are often employed to explain and justify contemporary international politics and are seen to constitute the different schools of thought in the discipline. However, traditional interpretations frequently ignore the intellectual and historical context in which these thinkers were writing as well as the lineages through which they came to be appropriated in International Relations. This collection of essays provides alternative interpretations sensitive to these political and intellectual contexts and to the trajectory of their appropriation. The political, sociological, anthropological, legal, economic, philosophical and normative dimensions are shown to be constitutive, not just of classical theories, but of international thought and practice in the contemporary world. Moreover, they challenge traditional accounts of timeless debates and schools of thought and provide new conceptions of core issues such as sovereignty, morality, law, property, imperialism and agency.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Series-title......Page 5
Title......Page 7
Copyright......Page 8
Contents......Page 11
Notes on contributors......Page 13
Acknowledgements......Page 16
1 Classical theory and international
relations in context......Page 19
Continuity and discontinuity......Page 22
Intellectual contexts......Page 25
Political contexts......Page 29
Lineages......Page 30
Structure......Page 35
Part I Intellectual contexts......Page 43
2 Pericles, realism and the normative
conditions of deliberate action......Page 45
Thucydides’ use of antithesis......Page 46
Antithesis in Thucydides’ treatment of Pericles......Page 48
Pericles and the power of chance: the plague......Page 53
Humanity’s dependence on norms of
moral conduct......Page 56
Pericles and the kinesis of customary norms......Page 59
Hermocrates at Gela: realism, prudence,
and moral norms......Page 64
Thucydides and contemporary theory......Page 67
3 Immanuel Kant and the
democratic peace......Page 70
The predominant interpretation of Kant’s writings......Page 72
Kant and the relationship between liberal and
non-liberal states......Page 76
Sovereignty, the evolution of the
international system and the importance
of the preliminary articles......Page 85
Conclusion......Page 91
4 ‘One powerful and enlightened
nation’: Kant and the quest for a
global rule of law......Page 92
‘Sorry comfort’: taking aim at classical
international law......Page 95
Kant and the global rule of law......Page 97
Distinguishing liberal and non-liberal regimes?......Page 98
A separate law?......Page 100
Authorizing liberal enforcement......Page 104
Conclusion......Page 111
5 Rousseau and Saint-Pierre’s peace
project: a critique of ‘history of
international relations theory’......Page 114
Rousseau’s opposition to modern natural-law theory......Page 117
The development of Rousseau’s social-contract theory and his
study of Saint-Pierre......Page 120
Rousseau’s ‘review’ of Saint-Pierre:
a document of sympathy......Page 124
Rousseau’s moral and theoretical agreements with Saint-Pierre......Page 125
The correspondence between Rousseau’s social-contract
association and Saint-Pierre’s confederation......Page 128
Reassessing Rousseau’s theory of
international relations......Page 131
Rousseau’s concept of sovereignty as moral freedom......Page 132
Rousseau’s critique of Saint-Pierre’s peace project......Page 135
Conclusion......Page 136
Part II Political contexts......Page 139
6 The Savage Smith and the temporal
walls of capitalism......Page 141
Lafitau: to the Indians and back......Page 145
Smith and the Indians: time, space and
moral science......Page 152
The Savage within the walls of political economy......Page 163
Conclusion......Page 172
Introduction......Page 174
Locke’s chapter on property......Page 176
The importance of property......Page 179
The right to occupy unoccupied land – the
doctrine of terra nullius......Page 181
Terra nullius and sovereignty......Page 194
Conclusion......Page 195
8 Classical smoke, classical mirror:
Kant and Mill in liberal international
relations theory......Page 196
History and the perpetual peace......Page 199
John Stuart Mill and liberalism......Page 209
Mill’s political theory......Page 215
Conclusion......Page 219
Part III Lineages......Page 223
Introduction......Page 225
Kant’s universal self......Page 230
Kant’s political philosophy before the
French Revolution......Page 231
Kant’s political philosophy after the Revolution......Page 235
Hegel’s constitutive self......Page 240
Hegel’s embrace of ‘difference’......Page 242
Hegel’s denial of ‘difference’......Page 244
Conclusion......Page 248
10 Images of Grotius......Page 251
Two views of Grotius’ importance......Page 254
The development of the traditional image
of Grotius......Page 258
Forms of early modern international
political thought......Page 262
Imagining Grotius today......Page 267
Conclusion......Page 269
11 The Hobbesian theory of
international relations:
three traditions......Page 271
Foundations......Page 272
Hobbesian international political theory......Page 280
The Hobbesian legacy in international theory......Page 287
12 Re-appropriating Clausewitz: the
neglected dimensions of
counter-strategic thought......Page 295
Pure war vs real war......Page 297
Foucault’s Clausewitz: war, society and
force relations......Page 300
Deleuze and Guattari’s Clausewitz: the nomadic
movement of war......Page 309
Conclusion......Page 313
Index......Page 314
CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS......Page 329

✦ Subjects

Международные отношения;Международные отношения;Теория международных отношений;