This reader has been assembled in response to increasing dissatisfaction among a growing number of international relations scholars with the currently dominant

This book seeks to offer a general interpretation and critique of both methodlogical and substantive aspects of International theory.

Contemporary Political Theory is a foundation textbook in political thought.

In one, international relations is a Hobbesian state of nature in which moral judgments are entirely inappropriate, and in the other, states are analogous to pe

Boucher uses ideas of Western philosophy's most significant thinkers to trace the history of political theory in international relations. He ends by showing how