British International Thinkers from Hobbes to Namier (The Palgrave Macmillan History of International Thought)

In The Modern Era, British Thinkers Have Made Significant - Indeed Perhaps Even Disproportionate - Contributions To Our Understanding Of The Workings Of International Relations. This Book Brings Together Eleven Original Essays By An Inter-disciplinary Team Of Historians, Political Theorists And International Relations Specialists That Reconsider Some Of Those Contributions And Their Legacies. It Aims To Provide New Insights Into The Work Of Thinkers From Thomas Hobbes And Edmund Burke To Goldsworthy Lowes And Lewis Namier As Well As To Advance The Study Of The History Of International Thought. The Glorious Sovereign : Thomas Hobbes On Leadership And International Relations / Haig Patapan -- John Locke's International Thought / David Armitage -- Moral Sentiment Theory And The International Thought Of David Hume / Renée Jeffery -- Adam Smith On War And (and Peace) / Lisa Hill -- Edmund Burke And International Conflict / Richard Bourke -- The International Political Thought Of John Stuart Mill / Georgios Varouxakis -- The Resilience Of Natural Law In The Writings Of Sir Travers Twiss / Andrew Fitzmaurice -- James Bryce And The Two Faces Of Nationalism / Casper Sylvest -- Democracy And Empire : J.a. Hobson, Leonard Hobhouse, And The Crisis Of Liberalism / Duncan Bell -- The Never-satisfied Idealism Of Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson / Jeanne Morefield -- The Realist As Moralist : Sir Lewis Namier's International Thought / Ian Hall. Edited By Ian Hall And Lisa Hill. Product Of A Workshop Held In Adelaide In July 2008. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. This book will be the first to examine the variety of British international thought, its continuities and innovations. The editors combine new essays on familiar thinkers such as Thomas Hobbes and John Locke with important but neglected writers and publicists such as Travers Twiss, James Bryce, and Lowes Dickinson.