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Before Anarchy - Hobbes and his Critics in Modern International Thought (Hardcover)
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Before Anarchy - Hobbes and his Critics in Modern International Thought (Hardcover)
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How did the 'Hobbesian state of nature' and the 'discourse of
anarchy' - separated by three centuries - come to be seen as
virtually synonymous? Before Anarchy offers a novel account of
Hobbes's interpersonal and international state of nature and
rejects two dominant views. In one, international relations is a
warlike Hobbesian anarchy, and in the other, state sovereignty
eradicates the state of nature. In combining the contextualist
method in the history of political thought and the
historiographical method in international relations theory, Before
Anarchy traces Hobbes's analogy between natural men and sovereign
states and its reception by Pufendorf, Rousseau and Vattel in
showing their intellectual convergence with Hobbes. Far from
defending a 'realist' international theory, the leading political
thinkers of early modernity were precursors of the most enlightened
liberal theory of international society today. By demolishing
twentieth-century anachronisms, Before Anarchy bridges the divide
between political theory, international relations and intellectual
history.
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