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The contributions made by British intellectuals to modern international political thought have been at the centre of several debates in recent decades in disciplines such as international relations.
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Istvan Hont’s Jealousy of Trade: International Competition and the Nation-State in Historical Perspective (2005) was the first major attempt in contemporary research to analyse the changes and ruptures that occurred during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. According to Hont (2005, 5–6), “The phrase ‘jealousy of trade’ refers to a particular conjunction between politics and the economy. It emerged when success in international trade became a matter of the military and political survival of nations. Jealousy of trade signaled that the economy had become political. It inaugurated global market competition as primary state activity.”.
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As Hont (2005, 7) states, “To account for jealousy of trade one needs at least two historical ‘tunnels’ simultaneously, a political and an economic one. Urgent and interesting issues in politics are rarely located entirely on either side of the alleged fault line between realism and liberalism, or between ancient and modern republicanism. There is a messy overlap where pure theory is adapted to political reality. This hybrid space is the natural home of jealousy of trade.”.
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The process of civilisation is described by John Pocock (1999, 278–88) as the “enlightenment narrative.”.
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As Hont (2005, 4) mentions, “The eighteenth century produced a vision of the future as a global market of competing commercial states.”.
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Bourcier, B., Jakonen, M. (2024). Introduction. In: Bourcier, B., Jakonen, M. (eds) British Modern International Thought in the Making. International Political Theory. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-45713-5_1
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