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Zusatztext "[T]he book . . . provides a subtle and refreshing critique of Realist understanding of the relations of states as security seekers. . . . This revisionist approach is particularly welcome in the disciplines of political theory--by broadening the international dimension of the history of political thinking--and of intellectual history--by bringing together arguments that have usually been treated as conceptually distinct. It also provides a conceptual framework for addressing our contemporary security concerns and thereby alleviates the anxieties that the future might hold." ---Theodore Christov, European Legacy Informationen zum Autor Daniel H. Deudney is Associate Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University. He has written extensively on international political theory and contemporary global issues. Klappentext Realism, the dominant theory of international relations, particularly regarding security, seems compelling in part because of its claim to embody so much of Western political thought from the ancient Greeks to the present. Its main challenger, liberalism, looks to Kant and nineteenth-century economists. Despite their many insights, neither realism nor liberalism gives us adequate tools to grapple with security globalization, the liberal ascent, and the American role in their development. In reality, both realism and liberalism and their main insights were largely invented by republicans writing about republics. The main ideas of realism and liberalism are but fragments of republican security theory, whose primary claim is that security entails the simultaneous avoidance of the extremes of anarchy and hierarchy, and that the size of the space within which this is necessary has expanded due to technological change. In Daniel Deudney's reading, there is one main security tradition and its fragmentary descendants. This theory began in classical antiquity, and its pivotal early modern and Enlightenment culmination was the founding of the United States. Moving into the industrial and nuclear eras, this line of thinking becomes the basis for the claim that mutually restraining world government is now necessary for security and that political liberty cannot survive without new types of global unions. Unique in scope, depth, and timeliness, Bounding Power offers an international political theory for our fractious and perilous global village. Zusammenfassung Realism, the dominant theory of international relations, particularly regarding security, seems compelling in part because of its claim to embody so much of Western political thought from the ancient Greeks to the present. This book offers an international political theory for our fractious and perilous global village. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Figures ix Preface and Acknowledgments xi INTRODUCTION: Before Realism and Liberalism 1 PART I: Traditions and Theory CHAPTER ONE: Republican Security Theory 27 CHAPTER TWO: Relatives and Descendants 61 PART II: From the Polis to Federal Union CHAPTER THREE: The Iron Laws of Polis Republicanism 91 CHAPTER FOUR: Maritime Whiggery 114 CHAPTER FIVE: The Natural'Republic' of Europe 136 CHAPTER SIX: The Philadelphian System 161 PART III: Toward the Global Village CHAPTER SEVEN: Liberal Historical Materialism 193 CHAPTER EIGHT: Federalist Global Geopolitics 215 CHAPTER NINE: Anticipations of World Nuclear Government 244 CONCLUSION 265 NOTES 279 Index 375 ...
