Classical Theories of International Relations - St Antony's Series 1996 edition

Marc Notes: Published in association with St Antony's College, Oxford.; Includes bibliographical references and index.; 8; This text discusses the thinking of central political theorists about the modern states system. Thinkers covered include Hobbes, Grotius, Kant and Vattel.. Biographical Note: Ian Clark is Fellow of Selwyn College and Deputy Director of the Center of International Studies at the University of Cambridge. Iver B. Neumann is Head of the Section for Foreign Affairs and Security Studies at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, Oslo. Table of Contents: Traditions of Thought and Classical Theories of International Relations--I. Clark * Hobbes, the State of Nature and the Laws of Nature--C. Navari * Grotius--B. Kingsbury * Kant: Theorist Beyond Limits--H. Williams & K. Booth * Victoria and the Universalist Conception of International Relations--M. C. Ortega * Desperately Clinging to Grotian and Kantian Sheep: Rousseau's Attempted Escape from the State of War--D. P. Fidler * Adam Smith and the Liberal Tradition in International Relations--A. W. Walter * Edmund Burke and the Commonwealth of Europe: The Cultural Bases of International Order--J. M. Welsh * Hegel, the State and International Relations--A. Linklater * Friedrich Gentz, Rationalism and the Balance of Power--R. Little * Vattel: Pluralism and its Limits--A. Hurrel * Conclusion--I. Clark & I. B. Neumann * IndexPublisher Marketing: This text discusses the thinking of central political theorists about the modern states system. Thinkers covered include Hobbes, Grotius, Kant and Vattel.

Contributor Bio:  Clark, Ian Ian Clark was educated at Glasgow University and Australian National University. He is currently Professor of International Politics at Aberystwyth. A Fellow of the British Academy, he is the author of several books from OUP including Legitimacy in International Society, The Post-Cold War Order, Globalization and the Theory of International Relations; and Globalization and Fragmentation. Contributor Bio:  Neumann, Iver B Iver B. Neumann is Professor and Director of Research at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs. He is the author of Uses of the Other: The "East" in European Identity Formation and coauthor most recently of Governing the Global Polity: Practice, Rationality, Mentality.