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Classical and Modern Thought on International Relations

From Anarchy to Cosmopolis

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  • © 2005

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  1. Robert Jackson
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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. International Thought

    • Robert Jackson
    Pages 1-16

  3. Conversing with Thrasymachus: Voices of Realism

    • Robert Jackson
    Pages 17-37

  4. Martin Wight, Realism, and the Good Life

    • Robert Jackson
    Pages 39-50

  5. Martin Wight’s Theology of Diplomacy

    • Robert Jackson
    Pages 51-72

  6. Changing Faces of Sovereignty

    • Robert Jackson
    Pages 73-99

  7. Knots and Tangles of International Obligation

    • Robert Jackson
    Pages 101-121

  8. Jurisprudence for a Solidarist World: Richard Falk’s Grotian Moment

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    Pages 123-138

  9. Dialogical Justice in World Affairs

    • Robert Jackson
    Pages 139-156

  10. Lifting the Veil of Ignorance: John Rawls’s Society of Peoples

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    Pages 157-179

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 181-209
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In the tradition of the English School of International Relations theory, this project from Robert Jackson seeks to show how continuities in international politics outweigh the changes. The author demonstrates how the world is neither one of anarchy, as put forward by realists, nor is it a fully cosmopolitan order, as argued by those on the other side of the theoretical spectrum. Instead, it is a world of states who acknowledge a set of moral constraints that exists between them.

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'This is... an important book: a robust defence, by an influential thinker, of an approach to the study of international relations that goes beyond the immediate and the instrumental'. - Ian Hall, International Affairs

About the author

ROBERT JACKSON is Professor of Political Science at Boston University, USA. He is the Author/Editor of nine books including The Global Covenant: Human Conduct in a World of States (Oxford, 2003), Quasi-States: Sovereignty, International Relations and the Third World (Cambridge, 1991), and Co-author of Introduction to International Relations (Oxford, 2003).

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