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Contemporary International Relations is as much a conversation between the living and the dead as it is among the living. Its debates are thoroughly rooted in and shaped by the thought of many bygone minds, both ancient and modern. With this in mind, The Return of the Theorists presents forty imagined dialogues with foundational theorists. They run the gamut from Homer and Confucius to Hedley Bull and Jean Bethke Elshtain, and span almost three millennia of human history, comprising representatives of a variety of cultures. The interviewers consist of more than forty international relations scholars and political theorists. They too cut across cultures, continents and almost three generations, and each is an expert on the work of the thinker invited. The Return of the Theorists will be of interest to anyone who has tried to enter the mind of bygone thinkers in political thought and International Relations.
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Keywords
- International Relations
- International Relations Theory
- Political Theory
- Interviews
- Dialogues
- Great Thinkers
- Theory Talks
- Philosophy
- Aristotle
- Hannah Arendt
- Immanuel Kant
- international relations
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- John Locke
- John Rawls
- Karl Marx
- Michel Foucault
- philosophy
- Pierre Bourdieu
- Plato
- political theory
- socialism
- Thomas Hobbes
Table of contents (42 chapters)
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Front Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Richard Ned Lebow is Professor of International Political Theory in the War Studies Department of King's College London, Bye-Fellow of Pembroke College, University of Cambridge and the James O. Freedman Presidential Professor (Emeritus) of Government at Dartmouth College. His most recent publications are Franz Ferdinand Lives: A World Without World War I, Constructing Cause in International Relations and, co-authored with Simon Reich, Goodbye Hegemony! Rethinking America's Role in the World (all titles published in 2014).
Peer Schouten is a postdoctoral researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies and editor-in-chief of Theory Talks. He works on issues ranging from International Relations Theory to mining-related conflicts in Central Africa.
Hidemi Suganami was Professor of the Philosophy of International Relations at Keele before joining Aberystwyth University in 2004. His major works include The Domestic Analogy and Word Order Proposals (1989); On the Causes of War (1996); and, with Andrew Linklater, The English School of International Relations (2006).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Return of the Theorists
Book Subtitle: Dialogues with Great Thinkers in International Relations
Editors: Richard Ned Lebow, Peer Schouten, Hidemi Suganami
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137516459
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-51644-2Published: 30 November 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-57788-0Published: 06 June 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-51645-9Published: 21 March 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 393
Topics: International Relations, Political Theory, Political Science, Philosophy, general, Political History