Foundations of modern international thought
"Between the early seventeenth and mid-nineteenth centuries, major European political thinkers first began to look outside their national borders and envisage a world of competitive, equal sovereign states inhabiting an international sphere that ultimately encompassed the whole globe. In this i...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2013.
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Introduction: rethinking the foundations of modern international thought; Part I. Historiographical Foundations: 1. The international turn in intellectual history; 2. Is there a pre-history of globalisation?; 3. The elephant and the whale: empires and oceans in world history; Part II. Seventeenth-Century Foundations: Hobbes and Locke: 4. Hobbes and the foundations of modern international thought; 5. John Locke's international thought; 6. John Locke, Carolina and the Two Treatises of Government; 7. John Locke: theorist of empire?; Part III. Eighteenth-Century Foundations: 8. Parliament and international law in eighteenth-century Britain; 9. Edmund Burke and Reason of State; 10. Globalising Jeremy Bentham; Part IV. Building on the Foundations: Making States since 1776: 11. The Declaration of Independence and international law; 12. Declarations of independence, 1776-2012.