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Hobbes, Realism and the Tradition of International Law

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  • © 2004

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  1. Charles Covell

    1. University of Tsukuba, Japan

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
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  2. Introduction

    • Charles Covell
    Pages 1-9

  3. First Principles of Law, State and Government in Hobbes’s Civil Philosophy

    • Charles Covell
    Pages 10-54

  4. Natural Law, the Law of Nations and Realism in International Politics

    • Charles Covell
    Pages 55-98

  5. The Tradition of International Law

    • Charles Covell
    Pages 99-145

  6. Conclusion

    • Charles Covell
    Pages 146-156

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 157-194
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Charles Covell considers the poltical thought of Thomas Hobbes in relation to the tradition of international law, and with the intention to challenge the reading of Hobbes as the exponent of the realist standpoint in international thought and practice. The relation of Hobbes to international law is explained through attention to the place that he occupies among the modern secular natural law thinkers, such as Grotius, Pufendorf, Wolff and Vattel, who founded the modern system of the law of nations.

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  • University of Tsukuba, Japan

    Charles Covell

About the author

CHARLES COVELL was educated at the City of London School and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. Since 1990, he has taught law and politics at the Unversity of Tsukuba in Japan, where he is Associate Professor of Jurisprudence in the Institute of Social Sciences. His publications include the following books: The Redefinition of Conservatism: Politics and Doctrine (1986); The Defence of Natural Law: A Study of the Ideas of Law and Justice in the Writings of Lon L. Fuller, Michael Oakeshott, F.A. Hayek, Ronald Dworkin and John Finnis (1992); Kant, Liberalism and the Pursuit of Justice in the International Order (1994); Kant and the Law of Peace: A Study in the Philosophy of International Law and International Relations (1998).

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