The Return of the Theorists: Dialogues with Great Thinkers in International Relations

Book Overview

Introduction; The Editors
1. Homer (c. 850 BCE); Richard Ned Lebow
2. Conversations with Confucius (551-479 BCE); Pichamon Yeophantong
3. Lao Zi (6th-5th century BCE?): Dao of International Politics; Chen Yudan
4. Thucydides (c.460 - c. 395 BCE): A Theorist for All Time; Richard Ned Lebow
5. Discussing War with Plato (429 - 347 BCE); Christopher Coker
6. Aristotle (384 - 322 BCE): The Philosopher and the Discipline; Anthony F Lang, Jr.
7. Two Realisms of Niccol? Machiavelli (1469 - 1527); Erica Benner
8. Thomas Hobbes (1588 - 1679); Michael C. Williams
9. An Interview with John Locke (1632-1704); Beate Jahn
10. Two Days in the Life of 'Dave' Hume (1711 - 1776); Hidemi Suganami
11. The Dangers of Dependence: Sultan's Conversation with his Master Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778); David Boucher
12. Immanuel Kant (1724 -1804): A Little Kantian 'Schwaermerei'; Friedrich Kratochwil
13. A Fine Bromance: Immanuel Kant (1724 - 1804) and Niccol? Machiavelli (1469 - 1527); Se?n Molloy
14. G.W.F. Hegel (1770 -1831) and International Relations; Richard Beardsworth
15. A Brief Encounter with Major-General Carl von Clausewitz (1780 - 1831); Jan Willem Honig
16. A Conversation with Karl Marx (1818 - 1883) on why there is no Socialism in the United States; Joshua Simon
17. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900); Tracy B. Strong
18. ?mile Durkheim (1858 - 1917); Bertrand Badie
19. Theory Talk #-100: John Dewey (1859 - 1952) on the Horror of Making his Poetry Public; Christian Bueger and Peer Schouten
20. Max Weber (1864 - 1920); Richard Ned Lebow
21. The Republic of Norman Angell (1872 - 1967): A Dialogue (with apologies to Plato); Lucian Ashworth
22. Functionalism in Uncommon Places: Electrifying the Hades with David Mitrany (1888 - 1975); Jens Steffek
23. Dialogue with Arnold Wolfers (1892 - 1968); James W. Davis
24. E. H. Carr (1892 - 1982); Mick Cox
25. Modernity, Technology and Global Security: A Conversation with Lewis Mumford (1895-1990); Rens van Munster and Casper Sylvest
26. More Fragments of an Intellectual Biography: Hans J. Morgenthau (1904-1980); William E. Scheuerman
27. The Return of the Spectateur Engag? Interview with Raymond Aron (1905 - 1983); Ariane Chebel d'Appollonia
28. Hannah Arendt (1906 - 1975); Kimberly Huntchings
29. Interview with John Herz (1908 - 2005); Andrew Lawrence
30. Interview with Charles P. Kindleberger (1910 - 2003), The Reputed Progenitor of Hegemonic Stability Theory; Simon Reich
31. Karl Deutsch (1912 - 1992) Interviewed; Andrei Markovits
32. International Theory beyond the Three Traditions: A Student's Conversation with Martin Wight (1913 - 1972); Ian Hall
33. John Rawls (1921 - 2002); Huw L. Williams
34. The Spirit of Susan Strange (1923-1998); Louis Pauly
35. Questioning Kenneth N. Waltz (1924 - 2013); Hidemi Suganami and Adam Humphreys
36. Frantz Fanon (1925-1961); Rita Abrahamsen
37. Deep Hanging Out with Michel Foucault (1926-1984); Iver Neumann
38. Interviewing Pierre Bourdieu (1930 - 2002) about Pierre Bourdieu and International Relations; Anna Leander
39. Hedley Bull (1932 - 1985); Robert Ayson
40. Jean Bethke Elshtain (1941 - 2013): A Woman's Refuge, Baghdad, Summer 2015; Caroline Kennedy-Pipe
Conclusions; The Editors

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 134957788X
• ISBN13: 9781349577880
• Release Date: June 2016
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 393 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"