The idea of international political theory after Hobbes is a timely and lively focus through which to raise key questions about international politics, and to s

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How did the 'Hobbesian state of nature' and the 'discourse of anarchy' - separated by three centuries - come to be seen as virtually synonymous? Before Anarchy

This book explores Hobbes’s ideas about the internal pacification of states, the prospect of a peaceful international order, and the connections between civil

This volume explores, from a variety of perspectives, the political theory of the man who is arguably the greatest English political thinker. It is the first su