International Relations and the Problem of Difference has developed out of the sense that IR
as a discipline does not assess the quality of cultural interactions that shape, and are …

This book has been three years in the making. A number of chapters began life as shorter
entries in the Routledge Encyclopedia of International Relations and Global Politics (2005) …

Traditions of War examines wars and military occupation, and the ideas underlying them.
The search for these ideas is conducted in the domain of the laws of war, a body of rules …

Contemporary structural realism, or “neorealism,” has become immensely influential in the
contemporary study of international relations, due in part to its claims to be more scientific …

Niccolò Machiavelli is the most prominent and notorious theorist of violence in the history of
European political thought-prominent, because he is the first to candidly discuss the role of …

How can nations optimize their power in the modern world system? Realist theory has
underscored the importance of hard power as the ultimate path to national strength. In this …

The most superficial level of Thucydides' history examines the destructive consequences of
domestic and foreign policies framed outside the language of justice. His deeper political …

The realist theory of international relations is based on a particularly gloomy set of
assumptions about universal human motives. Believing people to be essentially asocial …

Many regard Thucydides as the first genuine International Relations theorist and a writer of
continuing, even timeless importance. His history of the Peloponnesian War is certainly a …

Hume and Machiavelli compares the political thought of David Hume, usually seen as a
classical liberal theorist of the Enlightenment, and Niccolo Machiavelli, the founder of …