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  title info:
    title: Hobbesian Internationalism
    sub title: Anarchy, Authority and the Fate of Political Philosophy
  name:
    name part: Lechner, Silviya.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
    role:
      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2019
    edition: 1st ed. 2019.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIV, 200 p. 1 illus. online resource.
  abstract: This book sets out to re-examine the foundations of Thomas Hobbes's political philosophy, and to develop a Hobbesian normative theory of international relations. Its central thesis is that two concepts - anarchy and authority - constitute the core of Hobbes's political philosophy whose aim is to justify the state. The Hobbesian state is a type of authority (juridical, public, coercive, and supreme) which emerges under conditions of anarchy ('state of nature'). A state-of-nature argument makes a difference because it justifies authority without appeal to moral obligation. The book shows that the closest analogue of a Hobbesian authority in international relations is Kant's confederation of free states, where states enjoy 'anarchical' (equal) freedom. At present, this crucial form of freedom is being threatened by economic processes of globalisation, and by the resurgence of private authority across state borders. Silviya Lechner was Assistant Professor and is currently a senior visiting research fellow at King's College London, UK. She specialises in social and political philosophy, theory of action, and international political theory. She is the co-author of Practice Theory and International Relations (with M. Frost, 2018).
  table of contents: PART I. Authority -- Chapter 1. Reading Hobbes as a Theorist of Anarchy and Authority -- Chapter 2. Authority and the Problem of Political Philosophy -- PART II. Anarchy -- Chapter 3. The State of Nature in The Elements -- Chapter 4. The State of Nature in De Cive -- Chapter 5. The State of Nature in Leviathan -- PART III. Hobbes's Theory of International Relations -- Chapter 6. Hobbes and the International Anarchy -- Chapter 7. Hobbesian Internationalism: Hobbes Meets Kant -- Chapter 8. Challenges: Globalisation and the Resurgence of Private Authority.
  note: by Silviya Lechner.
  subject:
    topic: Political philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Political theory
  subject:
    topic: Globalization
  subject:
    topic: Political science
  subject:
    topic: Security, International
  subject:
    topic: Political Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Political Theory
  subject:
    topic: Globalization
  subject:
    topic: Governance and Government
  subject:
    topic: International Security Studies
  classification: B65
  classification: 320.01
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      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: International Political Theory
  identifier: 9783030306939
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30693-9
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    record creation date: 191122
    record change date: 20191122114114.0
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