Social Contract Theory and Inteational Relations:From Hobbes to Kant

by: Stephen Chadwick (Author)

Publisher: Springer

Edition: 2024th

Publication Date: 2024/9/1

Language: English

Print Length: 182 pages

ISBN-10: 3031642201

ISBN-13: 9783031642203

Book Description

This book provides a systematic analysis of Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau and Kant with respect to inteational relations. These philosophers belong to the social contract tradition and are considered some of the most influential political theorists. Their ideas have played a role in the formation of national political constitutions and remain very influential both in understanding and legitimising the structure of societies around the world. This book is an innovative analysis of what these thinkers have claimed regarding the relationship between nation states, rather than contributing to the established scholarship on what they have said about individual political societies. Specifically, individual chapters examine war and peace, world goveance, inequality, and terrorism.

About the Author

This book provides a systematic analysis of Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau and Kant with respect to inteational relations. These philosophers belong to the social contract tradition and are considered some of the most influential political theorists. Their ideas have played a role in the formation of national political constitutions and remain very influential both in understanding and legitimising the structure of societies around the world. This book is an innovative analysis of what these thinkers have claimed regarding the relationship between nation states, rather than contributing to the established scholarship on what they have said about individual political societies. Specifically, individual chapters examine war and peace, world goveance, inequality, and terrorism.