?This handbook provides an exploration of the field of International Political Theory (IPT), which in its broadest terms, examines the ways in which ideas about justice, sovereignty, and legitimacy shape international politics. It is a comprehensive resource for those interested in understanding the philosophical, political, and legal issues that arise from interactions between states, peoples, and global actors. The two volumes of the handbook cover a wide range of topics, from the foundations of international political thought to the latest debates in the field. They are designed to give readers a comprehensive overview of the key concepts and arguments within international political theory and provide an introduction to the main debates in the field.
Volume 1 takes us from the ancient world to the formation of the modern state system as we lay the groundwork for a critical understanding of changes in, and challenges to, core ideas such as sovereignty, international law andterritorial integrity. The contributions to this volume explore the European domination of the discipline providing insights into how it came to conceive the world in its own image. They also focus on non-Western perspectives and reactions to European hegemony.
Introduction (David Boucher, Alexandros Koutsoukis, David Reidy, David
Sullivan, Peter Sutch, and Howard Williams).- Part I: The Ancient World.-
Chapter
1. The Chinese Contribution to Theorizing International Relations
(Rosita Dellios).
Chapter 2.Thucydides and Social Processes: Beyond Tragedy
(Alexandros Koutsoukis).
Chapter
3. Stoicism, Cicero and Relations Among
Nations (David Boucher).- Part II: Early Christianity and Early Modern
Christianity.
Chapter
4. Augustine, Realism, and their Revealed Truth (Huw
L. Williams) .
Chapter
5. The Roman Empire and the Universal Church (Cary C.
Nederman) .
Chapter
6. Crusader-Muslim Relations: The Power of Diplomacy in
a Troubling Age (Suleiman A. Mourad) .
Chapter
7. The Conceptual Challenge:
Europe and the New World (Camilla Boisen).- Part III: The Westphalian
Moment.
Chapter 8.Dynamic cosmopolis: The Westphalian world order and
beyond (Georg Cavallar) .
Chapter9.The Cosmopolitan Challenge: Cosmopolitan
Ideas in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century (Oliver Eberl).
Chapter
10.
The Positivist Challenge, the Rise of Realism, and the Demise of Nationalism
(Felix Rösch).- Part IV: Colonialism, Decolonisation and Postcolonialism.-
Chapter
11. Amķlcar Cabral and the International: Race, Colonialism,
Liberation (Branwen Gruffydd Jones) .
Chapter
12. Imperialism and its
critics (Demin Duan and Howard Williams) .
Chapter
13. The African Challenge
and its Aftermath: Colonial Legacies and the (Re)making of the International
Legal Order (Sara Dezalay) .
Chapter
14. New Imperialism (Brett Bowden).-
Part V: Progress and Promise of International Law.
Chapter
15. Practicing
Humanity: Humanisation and Contemporary International Political Theory (Peter
Sutch and Oliver Pierce) .
Chapter
16. Hegel and International Political
Theory (Tony Burns) .
Chapter
17. Just War Theory: Past, Present, and Future
(Cian ODriscoll).
Chapter
18. Three Axial Ages of Religion, Law and Global
Constitutionalism (Hauke Brunkhorst).- Part VI: Challenges to Sovereignty,
Territory and Borders.
Chapter
19. Conceptual Foundations of Sovereignty and
the Rise of the Modern State (Silviya Lechner).
Chapter
20. Nationalism and
Intrastate Diversities (Andrew Vincent) .
Chapter
21. Universal Obligations:
Jus Cogens and Obligations (Erga Omnes Christian Tomuschat) .
Chapter
22.
Self-Determination and Secession: An Act of Collective Emancipation (Costas
Laoutides) .
Chapter
23. Migration Across Borders (Gillian Brock).
Chapter
24. Remedying Cosmopolitan Wrongs: Indigenous Peoples, Kant, and Historical
Injustice (Timothy Waligore) .
Chapter 25.Women and War (Caron E. Gentry and
Rebecca Wilson).
Howard Williams is Distinguished Honorary Professor in the School of Law and Politics at Cardiff University, and Emeritus Professor of Political Theory in the Department of International Politics at Aberystwyth University, UK.
David Boucher is Professor of Political Philosophy and International Relations at the University of Cardiff, UK, and Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Johannesburg (2015-25), South Africa.
Peter Sutch is Professor of Political and International Theory at Cardiff University, UK. He is also Visiting Professor at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.
David Reidy is Professor of Philosophy at The University of Tennessee, USA.
Alexandros Koutsoukis is Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Central Lancashire, UK.
