1st Edition
The Theory of International Relations Selected Texts from Gentili to Treitschke
By M. G. Forsyth
Copyright 1970
354 Pages
by
Routledge
354 Pages
by
Routledge
353 Pages
by
Routledge
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The great writings of the past on the subject of international relations add an important dimension to the contemporary study of the field. The Theory of International Relations consists of substantial selections from authors whose ideas should be readily available to all students of international relations. All the passages selected by the editors ask fundamental, theoretical questions... Read more
Introduction; Alberico Gentili; Book I, Chapter I, On International Law as Applied to War; Book I, Chapter VI, That War May Be Waged Justly by Both Sides; Book I, Chapter IX, Whether it is Just to Wage War for the Sake of Religion; Hugo Grotius; Prolegomena; Book II, Chapter I, The Causes of War: First, Defence of Self and Property; Book II, Chapter XX, On Punishments; Book III, Chapter X, Cautions in Regard to Things Which are Done in an Unlawful War; Book III, Chapter XII, Moderation in Laying Waste and Similar Things; Book III, Chapter XXV, Conclusion, with Admonitions on Behalf of Good Faith and Peace; Emmerich de Vattel; Preface; Introduction Idea and General Principles of the Law of Nations; Book III, Chapter III, The Just Causes of War; Book III, Chapter XII, The Voluntary Law of Nations with Respect to the Effects of the Regular War, Independently of the Justice of the Cause; Jean-Jacques Rousseau; Abstract of the Abbé de Saint-Pierre’s Project for Perpetual Peace; Judgment on Saint-Pierre’s Project for Perpetual Peace; The State of War 1; Fragments on War; Immanuel Kant; Idea for a Universal History from a Cosmo-political Point of View; On the Commonplace: That May Be Correct in Theory but Is Useless in Practice; Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Essay; The Metaphysical Elements of Justice; Henry Brougham; Balance of Power; Friedrich von Gentz; Introduction; Chapter I, The True Acceptation of a Balance of Power; Chapter II, Of the Shock Given to the Balance of Power by the Introduction of the Partition System; Chapter III, Of the Decay of Political Feeling in the Course of the Revolution War; Chapter IV, Of the Relation Between France and the Other States in Internal Constitution; Richard Cobden; Chapter III, The Balance of Power; Heinrich von Treitschke; Book I, Chapter I, The State Idea; Book III, Chapter XXI, State Confederations and Federated States; Book IV, Chapter XXVIII, International Law and International Intercourse
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