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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Back Matter
About this book
The idea of international political theory after Hobbes is a timely and lively focus through which to raise key questions about international politics, and to set up dialogues between historical political theory and contemporary theories of international relations about the legacy of Hobbes in international politics. The move by political theorists towards consideration of the international realm and the consequent blurring of the distinction between domestic and international politics over recent years has been marked. In the light of these changes, the role of Hobbes in the dominant realist theory of International Relations requires urgent re-examination. This book makes an important and distinctive contribution to the argument that international political theory is moving beyond the reading of Hobbes as a founding theorist of the modern state inan inter-state system perpetuated by orthodox International Relations. The volume brings together a set of internationally-respected researchers with an expertise on Hobbes’ views on international relations in the context of the history of political thought, Hobbesian realism, and on Hobbes and contemporary international political theory.
Reviews
'The book focuses well on underappreciated aspects of Hobbesian debates in contemporary international relations literature and gracefully incorporates current events to illuminate the pointed (though sometimes arcane) aspects of Hobbes' thought emphasised throughout.' -Political Studies Review
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Politics and International Studies, The Open University, UK
Raia Prokhovnik
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International Political Thought, University of St. Andrews, UK
Gabriella Slomp
About the editors
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: International Political Theory after Hobbes
Book Subtitle: Analysis, Interpretation and Orientation
Editors: Raia Prokhovnik, Gabriella Slomp
Series Title: International Political Theory
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230304734
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Political & Intern. Studies Collection, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-24114-5Published: 05 January 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-31687-8Published: 05 January 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-30473-4Published: 05 January 2011
Series ISSN: 2662-6039
Series E-ISSN: 2662-6047
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 216
Topics: Political Theory, Political Philosophy, International Relations, Political Science, Political History