Unnatural States: The International System and the Power to Change

ISBN-13: 9781138517653 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 398 str.

Peter Ian Lomas

Opis

Unnatural States is a radical critique of international theory, in particular, of the assumption of state agency that states act in the world in their own right

Spis treści

Introduction

I Against the Conventional Wisdom

1. A Troublesome Abstraction
2. Hobbes's Symbolic Politics
3. Despite Philosophical Reason

II Talk about the World

4. All International Theorists Now
5. The Human Domain
6. Seeing All Relations Whole

III State, Nation, Agent

7. Struggling with States
8. Tracing Nations
9. Contriving Agents

IV Debates in Theory

10. Meta-theory and Modernity
11. Cosmopolitan Kant
12. The Kantian Search for Unity

Conclusion

A Double Prison

Index

O autorze

Lomas, Peter Ian