International Relations in Political Thought: Texts from the Ancient Greeks to the First World War

This unique collection presents texts in international relations from Ancient Greece to the First World War. Major writers such as Thucydides, Augustine, Aquinas, Machiavelli, Grotius, Kant and John Stuart Mill are represented by extracts of their key works; less well-known international theorists including John of Paris, Cornelius van Bynkershoek and Friedrich List are also included. Fifty writers are anthologised in what is the largest such collection currently available. The texts, most of which are substantial extracts, are organised into broadly chronological sections, each of which is headed by an introduction that places the work in its historical and philosophical context. Ideal for both students and scholars, the volume also includes biographies and guides to further reading.

• The largest number of classical authors collected in one volume • Authors are represented by substantial extracts of their work • Extracts set in context by extensive editorial introductions

Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. Ancient thought (500 BCE–312 CE): Thucydides, from History of the Peloponnesian War; Aristotle, from The Politics; Cicero, from On Duties; Marcus Aurelius, from Meditations; Plato, from The Epistles; 3. Late antiquity and the early Middle Ages (312–1000): Anonymous, from The Teaching of the Lord to the Gentiles through the Twelve Apostles or The Didache; Eusebius, from Tricennial Orations; Augustine, from The City of God Against the Pagans; Constantine Porphyrogenitus, from De Administrando Imperio; Al-Farabi, from The Political Regime; Avicenna, from The Healing; Moses Maimonides, from Logic; 4. International relations in Christendom: John of Paris, from On Royal and Papal Power; Dante Alighieri, from Monarchy; Martin Luther, from On Secular Authority; Thomas Aquinas, from Summa Theologiae; Desiderius Erasmus, from ‘Dulce Bellum Inexpertis’; Francisco de Vitoria, from ‘On the American Indians’; 5. The modern European state and system of states: Niccolò Machiavelli, from The Prince and The Discourses; Jean Bodin, from Six Books of the Commonwealth; François de Callières, from On the Manner of Negotiating with Princes; Cornelius van Bynkershoek, from On Questions of Public Law; Alexander Hamilton, from Letters of Pacificus; Edmund Burke, from Letters on a Regicide Peace; François de Salignac de la Mothe Fénelon, from ‘On the Necessity of Forming Alliances’; Friedrich von Gentz, from ‘The True Concept of a Balance of Power’; 6. The emergence of International Law: Hugo Grotius, from The Law of War and Peace; Thomas Hobbes, from Leviathan; Samuel Pufendorf, from On the Duties of Man and Citizen; Samuel Rachel, from ‘On the Law of Nations’; Christian von Wolff, from The Law of Nations Treated According to a Scientific Method; Emmerich de Vattel, from The Law of Nations or Principles of Natural Law; 7. The Enlightenment: the Abbé de Saint-Pierre, from A Project for Settling an Everlasting Peace in Europe; Montesquieu, from The Spirit of the Laws; David Hume, from Of the Balance of Power; Adam Smith, from The Wealth of Nations; Jean-Jacques Rousseau, from The State of War and Abstract and Judgement of Saint-Pierre\'s Project for Perceptual Peace; Immanuel Kant, from Essay on Theory and Practice, Perpetual Peace and The Metaphysical Elements of Right; 8. State and nation in nineteenth-century international political theory: G. W. F. Hegel, from Elements of the Philosophy of Right; G. Mazzini, from On the Duties of Man; John Stuart Mill, from ‘A Few Words on Non-intervention’; H. von Treitschke, from Politics; B. Bosanquet, from ‘Patriotism in the Perfect State’; 9. International relations and industrial society: Adam Smith, from The Wealth of Nations; David Ricardo, from ‘On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation’; Richard Cobden, from The Political Writings of Richard Cobden; Friedrich List, from The National System of Political Economy; Rudolf Hilferding, from Finance Capital; Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, from ‘The Communist Manifesto’; Joseph Schumpeter, from ‘The Sociology of Imperialisms’; List of references; Index.