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Acknowledgements ...... page ix
1 Introduction ...... 1
2 Ancient thought (500 BCE–312 CE) ...... 17 THUCYDIDES From History of the Peloponnesian War ...... 34 ARISTOTLE From The Politics ...... 61 CICERO From On Duties ...... 83 MARCUS AURELIUS From Meditations ...... 86 PLATO From The Epistles ...... 90
3 Late antiquity and the early middle ages (312–1000) .... 95 ANONYMOUS From The Teaching of the Lord to the Gentiles through the Twelve Apostles or The Didache ...... 111 EUSEBIUS From Tricennial Orations ...... 115 AUGUSTINE OFHIPPO From The City of God against the Pagans ...... 119 CONSTANTINE PORPHYROGENITUS From De Administrando Imperio ...... 136 AL-FARABI From The Political Regime ...... 148
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AVICENNA From The Healing ...... 170 MOSES MAIMONIDES From Logic ...... 174
4 International relations in Christendom ...... 177 JOHN OFPARIS From On Royal and Papal Power ...... 191 DANTE ALIGHIERI From Monarchy ...... 198 MARTIN LUTHER From On Secular Authority ...... 204 THOMAS AQUINAS From Summa Theologiae ...... 213 DESIDERIUS ERASMUS From “Dulce Bellum Inexpertis” ...... 221 FRANCISCO DE VITORIA From “On the American Indians” ...... 231
5 The modern European state and system of states ..... 243 NICCOLO` MACHIAVELLI From The Prince ...... 257 From The Discourses ...... 262 JEAN BODIN From Six Books of the Commonwealth ...... 270 FRANC¸OIS DE CALLIERES` From On the Manner of Negotiating with Princes ...... 276 CORNELIUS VAN BYNKERSHOEK From On Questions of Public Law ...... 281 ALEXANDER HAMILTON From Letters of Pacificus ...... 286 EDMUND BURKE From Letters on a Regicide Peace ...... 292 FRANC¸OIS DE SALIGNAC DE LA MOTHE FENELON´ From “On the Necessity of Forming Alliances” ...... 301 FRIEDRICH VON GENTZ “The True Concept of a Balance of Power” ...... 307
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6 The emergence of international law ...... 311 HUGO GROTIUS From The Law of Warand Peace ...... 325 THOMAS HOBBES From Leviathan ...... 335 SAMUEL PUFENDORF From On the Duties of Man and Citizen ...... 341 SAMUEL RACHEL From “On the Law of Nations” ...... 349 CHRISTIAN VON WOLFF From The Law of Nations Treated According to a Scientific Method ...... 356 EMMERICH DE VATTEL From The Law of Nations or Principles of Natural Law ...... 370
7 The Enlightenment ...... 379
THE ABBE´ DE SAINT-PIERRE From A Project for Settling an Everlasting Peace in Europe .... 394 MONTESQUIEU From The Spirit of the Laws ...... 399 DAVID HUME From Of the Balance of Power ...... 407 ADAM SMITH From The Wealthof Nations ...... 410 JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU From The State of War ...... 416 From Abstract and Judgement of Saint-Pierre’s Project for Perpetual Peace ...... 425 IMMANUEL KANT From Essay on Theory and Practice ...... 428 From Perpetual Peace ...... 432 From The Metaphysical Elements of Right ...... 450
8 State and nation in nineteenth-century international political theory ...... 457 G. W. F. HEGEL From Elements of the Philosophy of Right ...... 470
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G. MAZZINI From On the Duties of Man ...... 476 JOHN STUART MILL From “A Few Words on Non-Intervention” ...... 486 H. VON TREITSCHKE From Politics ...... 494 B. BOSANQUET From “Patriotism in the Perfect State” ...... 506
9 International relations and industrial society ...... 519 ADAM SMITH From The Wealthof Nations ...... 532 DAVID RICARDO From “On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation” ...... 535 RICHARD COBDEN From The Political Writings of Richard Cobden ...... 538 FRIEDRICH LIST From The National System of Political Economy ...... 550 RUDOLFHILFERDING From Finance Capital ...... 561 KARL MARX AND FRIEDRICH ENGELS From “The Communist Manifesto” ...... 572 JOSEPH SCHUMPETER From “The Sociology of Imperialisms” ...... 575
List of references ...... 585 Index ...... 596
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