Classical and Modern Thought on International Relations: From Anarchy to Cosmopolis

by R. Jackson

Overview

In the tradition of the English School of International Relations theory, this project from Robert Jackson seeks to show how continuities in international politics outweigh the changes. The author demonstrates how the world is neither one of anarchy, as put forward by realists, nor is it a fully cosmopolitan order, as argued by those on the other side of the theoretical spectrum. Instead, it is a world of states who acknowledge a set of moral constraints that exists between them.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781403968586
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	05/11/2005
Series:	The Palgrave Macmillan History of International Thought
Edition description:	2005
Pages:	209
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.02(d)

About the Author

ROBERT JACKSON is Professor of Political Science at Boston University, USA. He is the Author/Editor of nine books including The Global Covenant: Human Conduct in a World of States (Oxford, 2003), Quasi-States: Sovereignty, International Relations and the Third World (Cambridge, 1991), and Co-author of Introduction to International Relations (Oxford, 2003).

Table of Contents

Discourses of International Thought PART I: REALISM AND BEYOND Conversing with Thrasymachus: Voices of Realism Martin Wight, International Theory, and the Good Life Martin Wight's Theology of Diplomacy Beyond Hobbes But Not So Far as Kant: Ethics of Security PART II: PLURALISM, SOLIDARISM, JUSTICE Faces of Sovereignty What We Owe to Foreigners: International Obligation Jurisprudence for a Solidarist World: Richard Falk's "Grotian Movement" Dialectical Justice in World Affairs Lifting the Veil of Ignorance: John Rawls' "Law of Peoples"

Editorial Reviews

'This is... an important book: a robust defence, by an influential thinker, of an approach to the study of international relations that goes beyond the immediate and the instrumental'. - Ian Hall, International Affairs

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