Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Introduction

  • Chapter
International Political Theory after Hobbes

Part of the book series: International Political Theory Series ((IPoT))

  • 346 Accesses

Abstract

The theme of ‘international political theory after Hobbes’ is a timely focus, which allows us to set up dialogues about the legacy of Hobbes in international politics and to raise key questions about international politics in general.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this chapter

Log in via an institution
Chapter
USD 29.95
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
eBook
USD 39.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book
USD 54.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book
USD 54.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Purchases are for personal use only

Institutional subscriptions

Preview

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

References

  • Agamben, Giorgio (2000) Means without Ends: Notes on Politics. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Agamben, Giorgio (2005) State of Exception. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

    Book  Google Scholar 

  • Armitage, David (2006a) ‘Hobbes and the Foundations of Modern International Thought’ in Rethinking the Foundations of Modern Political Thought, edited by Annabel Brett and James Tully with Holly Hamilton-Bleakley, pp. 219–35. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press.

    Chapter  Google Scholar 

  • Armitage, David (ed.) (2006b) British Political Thought in History, Literature and Theory 1500–1800. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Beitz, Charles (1979) International Relations. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Boucher, David (1998) Political Theories of International Relations from Thucydides to the Present. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Bull, Hedley (1995) The Anarchical Society: A Study of Order in World Politics. 2nd edn. London: Macmillan.

    Google Scholar 

  • Carr, E. H. ([1939] 2001) The Twenty Years’ Crisis, introduction by Michael Cox. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan.

    Google Scholar 

  • Donnelly, Jack (2000) Realism and International Relations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

    Book  Google Scholar 

  • Doyle, Michael (1997) Ways of War and Peace. New York and London: W.W. Norton & Company.

    Google Scholar 

  • Forsyth, Murray (1979) ‘Thomas Hobbes and the External Relations of States’, British Journal of International Studies 5: 196–209.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Grotius, Hugo (2004) The Free Sea, introduction by David Armitage. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund.

    Google Scholar 

  • Grotius, Hugo (2005) The Rights of War and Peace, edited by Richard Tuck. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund.

    Google Scholar 

  • Habermas, Juergen (2007) Divided West. Cambridge: Polity.

    Google Scholar 

  • Hobbes, Thomas (1839) Elements of Philosophy, vol. 1 of the English Works of Thomas Hobbes, edited by Sir William Molesworth. London: John Bohn.

    Google Scholar 

  • Hobbes, Thomas (1840) A Dialogue Between a Philosopher and a Student of the Common Laws of England, pp. 3–160, vol. vi of The English Works of Thomas Hobbes, edited by William Molesworth. London: John Bohn.

    Google Scholar 

  • Hobbes, Thomas (1843) The History of the Grecian War Written by Thucydides vols viii and ix of the English Works of Thomas Hobbes, edited by Sir William Molesworth. London: John Bohn.

    Google Scholar 

  • Hobbes, Thomas (1969) The Elements of Law Natural and Politic, edited by Ferdinand Tonnies. 2nd edn. London: Cass.

    Google Scholar 

  • Hobbes, Thomas (1976) Thomas White’s De Mundo Examined, translated from Latin and edited by Harold Whitmore Jones. London: Bradford University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Hobbes, Thomas (1990) Behemoth, or the Long Parliament. Chicago: Chicago University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Hobbes, Thomas (1991) Leviathan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Hobbes, Thomas (1994a) Human Nature and De Corpore Politico, edited by J. C. A. Gaskin. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 254–64.

    Google Scholar 

  • Hobbes, Thomas (1994b) The Correspondence, vol. I (1622–1657) and vol. ii (1660–1679), edited by Noel Malcolm. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

    Chapter  Google Scholar 

  • Hobbes, Thomas (1998) On the Citizen, edited by R. Tuck and M. Silverthorne. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Kant, Immanuel (1991) Kant’s Political Writings, edited by H. Reiss. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Kant, Immanuel (1996) Kant’s Practical Philosophy, edited by M. Gregor. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

    Chapter  Google Scholar 

  • Malcolm, Noel (2002) Aspects of Hobbes. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

    Book  Google Scholar 

  • Newey, Glen (2008) Hobbes and ‘Leviathan’. London: Routledge.

    Book  Google Scholar 

  • Oakeshott, Michael (1937) Hobbes on Civil Association. Oxford: Blackwell.

    Google Scholar 

  • Onuf, Nicholas Greenwood (1998) The Republican Legacy in International Thought. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Prokhovnik, Raia (1991) Rhetoric and Philosophy in Hobbes’s Leviathan. New York: Garland.

    Google Scholar 

  • Prozorov, Sergei (2006) ‘Liberal Enmity: The Figure of the Foe in the Political Ontology of Liberalism’, Millennium: Journal of International Studies 35(1): 75–100.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Pufendorf, Samuel von (1991) Pufendorf: On the Duty of Man and Citizen According to Natural Law, edited by James Tully. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Schmitt, Carl (1976) The Concept of the Political. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Schmitt, Carl (1985) Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Schmitt, Carl (1996) The Leviathan in the State Theory of Thomas Hobbes: Meaning and Failure of a Symbol. Westport: Greenwood Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Schmitt, Carl, (2003) The Nomos of the Earth in the International Public Law of the Jus Publicum Europaeum. New York: Telos Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Scruton, Roger (1982) Kant. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Slomp, Gabriella (2000) Thomas Hobbes and the Political Philosophy of Glory. Houndmills: Macmillan Press; New York: St Martin’s Press.

    Book  Google Scholar 

  • Sorell, Tom (1986) Hobbes. Routledge: London.

    Google Scholar 

  • Sorell, Tom (2006) ‘Hobbes on Trade, Consumption and International Order’, The Monist 89: 245–58.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Strauss, Leo ([1936] (1963) The Political Philosophy of Hobbes: Its Basis and Genesis. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Strauss, Leo (1950) Natural Right and History. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Tuck, Richard (1999) The Rights of War and Peace. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Vincent, R. John (1981) ‘The Hobbesian Tradition in Twentieth Century International Thought’, Millennium: Journal of International Studies 10: 91–101.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Waltz, K. (2008) Realism and International Politics. New York and London: Routledge.

    Google Scholar 

  • Walker, R. B. J. (1993) Inside/Outside: International Relations as Political Theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Walker, R. B. J. (2010) After the Globe, Before the World. London: Routledge.

    Google Scholar 

  • Williams, Howard (2003) Kant’s Critique of Hobbes: Sovereignty and Cosmopolitanism. Cardiff: University of Wales Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Williams, Michael C. (1996) ‘Hobbes and International Relations: A Reconsideration’, International Organization 50: 213–36.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Williams, Michael (2005) The Hobbesian Theory of International Relations: Three Traditions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Wendt, Alexander (1992) ‘Anarchy is What States Make of It: The Social Construction of Power Politics’, International Organization 46: 391–425.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Wendt, Alexander (1999) Social Theory of International Politics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

    Book  Google Scholar 

Download references

Authors
  1. Raia Prokhovnik
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Gabriella Slomp
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Editor information

Editors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Politics and International Studies, The Open University, UK

    Raia Prokhovnik (Reader) (Reader)

  2. International Political Thought, University of St. Andrews, UK

    Gabriella Slomp (Senior Lecturer) (Senior Lecturer)

Copyright information

© 2010 Raia Prokhovnik and Gabriella Slomp

About this chapter

Cite this chapter

Prokhovnik, R., Slomp, G. (2010). Introduction. In: Prokhovnik, R., Slomp, G. (eds) International Political Theory after Hobbes. International Political Theory Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230304734_1

Download citation

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Search

Navigation