In the tradition of political realism, this book provides an important reappraisal of the concept of human nature in contemporary realist...

This book provides an erudite and fascinating account of the rise of territoriality in international relations. The physical extension of space is a...

"...This book provides an erudite and fascinating account of the rise of territoriality in international relations. The physical extension of space is a.... This book provides an erudite and fascinating account of the rise of territoriality in international relations. The physical extension of space is a taken-for-granted assumption of modern political and international theory; yet it has a history that needs to be registered and recognized. Larkins takes the reader on a tour that moves from the me..."

In the modern era, British thinkers have made significant – indeed perhaps even disproportionate – contributions to our understanding of the workings of...

This book calls for a reappraisal of liberalism in international relations theory. Based on the first comprehensive analysis of the ideas on international...

"...This book calls for a reappraisal of liberalism in international relations theory. Based on the first comprehensive analysis of the ideas on international.... This book calls for a reappraisal of liberalism in international relations theory. Based on the first comprehensive analysis of the ideas on international relations by David Hume, Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich Hayek and a new perspective on Adam Smith and international relations, the analysis shows that classical liberalism differs subst..."

Martin Wight's international thought inspired a generation of students at the London School of Economics and continues to animate the so-called "English...

Drawing on the development of "Grotian" scholarship in international legal and political thought, this book seeks to ascertain precisely what the term has...

"...Drawing on the development of "Grotian" scholarship in international legal and political thought, this book seeks to ascertain precisely what the term has.... Drawing on the development of "Grotian" scholarship in international legal and political thought, this book seeks to ascertain precisely what the term has meant, both historically and as it is employed in contemporary scholarship.. "A compelling scholarly re-interpretation of Grotius and his complex relationship with the so-called Grotia..."

Challenging the received notions of International Relations theory about perhaps its most central tradition--Realism--Molloy demonstrates how a belief in a...

In the tradition of the English School of International Relations theory, this book seeks to show how continuities in international politics outweigh the...

Liberal international thought contains a long-standing tradition of portraying the imminent decline of the nation-state. After all, some thinkers claim,...

This book examines the various competing interpretations of Kant's foundational Perpetual Peace since its initial publication in the late eighteenth century....

An exploration of Harold Laski's political and international thought.

Alexis de Tocqueville, Francis Lieber, and Walter Bagehot are all mid-19th-century liberals who both commented on and helped to shape public affairs in the...

Colonial civil servant, Fabian socialist, and eminence grise of the Bloomsbury circle, Leonard Woolf, was one of the most prolific writers on international...

The usual phrase for the aims of foreign policy from the Peace of Westphalia to 1918 was ‘interests and honor.' In the Age of the Dictators and the Cold War,...

This book’s central claim is that although Niebuhr and Morgenthau were critics of what they referred to as utopian thought, the core of their criticism...

"...This book’s central claim is that although Niebuhr and Morgenthau were critics of what they referred to as utopian thought, the core of their criticism.... This book’s central claim is that although Niebuhr and Morgenthau were critics of what they referred to as utopian thought, the core of their criticism constituted an attack on the inability of utopianism to produce politically stimulating and democratically mobilizing utopias. In their minds utopianism was rhetorically barren and imaginativ..."