TUCK:RIGHTS WAR & PEACE:POL THOUGHT INTERNAT ORDER GROTIUS KANT PAPER: Political Thought and the International Order from Grotius to Kant

by Richard Tuck

This book is the first fully historical account of the formative period of modern theories of international law. It sets the scene with an extensive history of the theory of international relations from antiquity down to the seventeenth century. Professor Richard Tuck examines the arguments over the moral basis for war and international aggression, and links the debates to the writings of the great political theorists such as Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, and Kant.

Genres: History, Politics, International Relations, Philosophy, Nonfiction

253 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1999

About the author

Richard Tuck is Professor of Government Department. Professor Tuck is a premier scholar of the history of political thought. His works include Natural Rights Theories (1979), Hobbes (1989), and Philosophy and Government, 1572-1651 (1993). They address a variety of topics including political authority, human rights, natural law, and toleration, and focus on a number of thinkers including Hobbes, Grotius, Selden, and Descartes. His current work deals with political thought and international law, and traces the history of thought about international politics from Grotius, Hobbes, Pufendorf, Locke, and Vattel, to Kant. He is also engaged in a work on the origins of twentieth century economic thought; in it he argues that the 'free rider' problem was only invented, as a problem, in recent decades. Thus his interests to a remarkable degree span concerns in all subfields of the discipline.

Reviews

[Lo Inga · Rating 3 out of 5]

Önskar att de politiska idéerna var mer genomgående beskrivna snarare än att de biografiska inslagen skulle ta så stor plats

[Yukinosita Yukino · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is beyond genius.