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Gonzalo Bustamante Kuschel • Problemos
(2024)
This article examines the subtle nuances of Hobbes’s and Kant’s perspectives on rhetoric and materialism, contextualising them within the broader framework of political philosophy. Despite both philosophers being critics of rhetoric, their ...
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DOI: 10.15388/Problemos.2024.106.4
James Farr • Cambridge University Press eBooks
(2003)
The idea that politics is, or can be, the subject of science is an ancient one that reaches back to Aristotle. Early modern expressions of the idea can be found in Machiavelli and Hobbes, as well as in Enlightenment thinkers from Hume to th...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/chol9780521594424.018
Michael C. Williams • International Organization
(1996)
Hobbes has long been a central figure in the theory of international relations. He has also been a badly misunderstood one. While often invoked to support contemporary theories of international politics, Hobbes's thinking actually challenge...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/s002081830002854x
Michael C. Williams • Cambridge University Press eBooks
(2005)
Realism is commonly portrayed as theory that reduces international relations to pure power politics. Michael Williams provides an important reexamination of the Realist tradition and its relevance for contemporary international relations. E...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511491771
Torbjørn L. Knutsen (1992)
This book traces discussions about international relations from the middle ages up to the present times. It presents central concepts in historical context and shows how ancient ideas still affect the way we perceive world politics. It disc...
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Robert O. Keohane • International Organization
(1986)
World politics is commonly referred to as anarchic, meaning that it lacks a common government. Yet a Hobbesian “war of all against all” does not usually ensue: even sovereign governments that recognize no common authority may engage in limi...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0020818300004458
Jack Donnelly, Cambridge University Press • Choice Reviews Online
(2001)
Realism and International Relations provides students with a critical yet sympathetic survey of political realism in international theory. Using six paradigmatic theories - Hans Morgenthau, Kenneth Waltz, the Prisoners' Dilemma, Thucydides,...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.38-2981
Charles R. Beitz • Michigan Law Review
(1980)
Preface vii Introduction 3 Part One. International Relations as a State of Nature 11 1. The Skepticism of the Realists 15 2. The Hobbesian Situation 27 3. International Relations as a State of Nature 35 4. The Basis of International Moralit...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/1288081
David A. Lake • Cornell University Press eBooks
(2017)
International relations are generally understood as a realm of anarchy in which countries lack any superior authority and interact within a Hobbesian state of nature. In Hierarchy in International Relations , David A. Lake challenges this t...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.7591/9780801458934
Jack Donnelly • Cambridge University Press eBooks
(2000)
Realism and International Relations provides students with a critical yet sympathetic survey of political realism in international theory. Using six paradigmatic theories - Hans Morgenthau, Kenneth Waltz, the Prisoners' Dilemma, Thucydides,...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511612510