British Modern International Thought in the Making: Politics and Economy from Hobbes to Bentham

ISBN-13: 9783031457128 / Angielski

Benjamin Bourcier; Mikko Jakonen

Opis

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Spis treści

Introduction

Benjamin Bourcier and Mikko Jakonen

Part One: Economics and Politics within Early Modern International Theory

1.1 Carlos Eduardo Suprinyak: Grotius Among the English Merchants: Natural Law and Anglo-Dutch Rivalry in the Early Seventeenth Century

1.2 Mikko Jakonen: Hobbes on Economy and International Relations

1.3 Peter Schroeder: Hobbes’s and Vattel’s International Political Thought

1.4 Chapter on John Locke

PART TWO: Morality, Politics and Economy within International Theory in David Hume and Adam Smith

2.1 Erik W. Matson: International Political Economy and Moral Improvement in David Hume

2.2 Edwin van de Haar: Adam Smith’s International Economic and Political Theory

2.3 Laurie Bréban & Jean Dellemotte: ‘Savages’ and ‘Civilized’ in Adam Smith’ international theory

2.4 Benoît Walraevens: Adam Smith and Raynal’s History of the Two Indies

Part Three: Trade, Utility and International Theory in Jeremy Bentham’s Thought

3.1 Nathalie Sigot: Bentham’s Economic Theory of International Trade

3.2 Michael Quinn: Bentham via Dumont on the Balance of Trade

3.3 Benjamin Bourcier: Politics of international commerce in Bentham’s thought

Conclusion (Benjamin Bourcier and Mikko Jakonen)

O autorze

Benjamin Bourcier is Associate Professor of Philosophy, ESPOL, Catholic University of Lille, France. His main research interests include the history of international political thought, cosmopolitanism, Jeremy Bentham, the enlightenment.

Mikko Jakonen is Professor of Social and Public Policy, University of Eastern Finland. His main research interests are in social policy, work, economy, social theory and history of political thought.

Blurb

“For those reared on a diet of St. Pierre, Rousseau and Kant, it will come as a shock to find that British international thought often pre-empted their ideas or developed them separately, based on a deep understanding of commerce and the global balance of powers."
--- Prof. Peter Niesen, Hamburg University

This book articulates international political theory in dialogue with economics in  several questions. It asks how modern international theory has been adjusted and nourished by economic ideas, theories and practices? How far has the distinctive contribution of some theorists to international theory been informed by their views on economy? What has been the impact of the theory of the state for economic and international theory? What sort of economic thinking has led to revise the debates constitutive for the modern international realm? How have economic debates been rhetorically connected to political debates in the field of international relations?

Benjamin Bourcier is Associate Professor of Philosophy, ESPOL, Catholic University of Lille, France. His main research interests include the history of international political thought, cosmopolitanism, Jeremy Bentham, the enlightenment.

Mikko Jakonen is Professor of Social and Public Policy, University of Eastern Finland. His main research interests are in social policy, work, economy, social theory and history of political thought.