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

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

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.

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