Foundations of Modern International Thought
Cambridge University Press, 11/29/2012
EAN 9780521001694, ISBN10: 0521001692
Paperback, 312 pages, 22.8 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm
Language: English
Between the early seventeenth and mid-nineteenth centuries, major European political thinkers first began to look outside their national borders and envisage a world of competitive, equal sovereign states inhabiting an international sphere that ultimately encompassed the whole globe. In this insightful and wide-ranging work, David Armitage – one of the world's leading historians of political thought – traces the genesis of this international turn in intellectual history. Foundations of Modern International Thought combines important methodological essays, which consider the genealogy of globalisation and the parallel histories of empires and oceans, with fresh considerations of leading figures such as Hobbes, Locke, Burke and Bentham in the history of international thought. The culmination of more than a decade's reflection and research on these issues, this book restores the often overlooked international dimensions to intellectual history and recovers the intellectual dimensions of international history.
Introduction
rethinking the foundations of modern international thought
Part I. Historiographical Foundations
1. The international turn in intellectual history
2. Is there a pre-history of globalisation?
3. The elephant and the whale
empires and oceans in world history
Part II. Seventeenth-Century Foundations
Hobbes and Locke
4. Hobbes and the foundations of modern international thought
5. John Locke's international thought
6. John Locke, Carolina and the Two Treatises of Government
7. John Locke
theorist of empire?
Part III. Eighteenth-Century Foundations
8. Parliament and international law in eighteenth-century Britain
9. Edmund Burke and Reason of State
10. Globalising Jeremy Bentham
Part IV. Building on the Foundations
Making States since 1776
11. The Declaration of Independence and international law
12. Declarations of independence, 1776–2012.
'In this masterly set of essays, David Armitage considers the significance of globalization for the past history of the European state and the political thought it generated. He sets the agenda for the next phase of research and writing on the great subject.' J. G. A. Pocock, Folger Institute and Johns Hopkins University