Classical And Modern Thought On International Relations ― From Anarchy To Cosmopolis

Jackson (international relations, Boston U.) further refines international theory as he expressed it in The Global Covenant with an interdisciplinary approach, covering international thought, voices of realism such as that of Thrasymachus, the thought of Martin Wright on realism and the good life and the theology of diplomacy, the changing faces of sovereignty, tangles of international obligation, Richard Flak's Grotian moment, jurisprudence for a solidarist world, and lifting the veil of ignorance through John Rales' "society of peoples." Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

ROBERT JACKSON is Professor of Political Science at Boston University, USA. He is the Author/Editor of nine books including The Global Covenant: Human Conduct in a World of States (Oxford, 2003), Quasi-States: Sovereignty, International Relations and the Third World (Cambridge, 1991), and Co-author of Introduction to International Relations (Oxford, 2003).