Friendship Among Nations - History of a Concept (Paperback)

This is the first book-length study of the role that friendship plays in diplomacy and international politics. Through an examination of a vast amount of sources ranging from diplomatic letters and bilateral treaties, to poems and philosophical treatises, it analyses how friendship has been talked about and practised in pre-modern political orders and modern systems of international relations. The study highlights how instrumental friendship was for describing and legitimising a range of political and legal engagements with foreign countries and nations. It emphasises contractual and political aspects in diplomatic friendship based on the idea of utility. It is these functions of the concept that help the world stick together when collective institutions are either embryonic or no more. -- .

General

Imprint:	Manchester University Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	September 2020
First published:	2017
Authors:	Evgeny Roshchin
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	272
ISBN-13:	978-1-5261-1646-8
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > International relations > Diplomacy Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
LSN:	1-5261-1646-4
Barcode:	9781526116468

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