Political Theory and International Relations : : Revised Edition / / Charles R. Beitz.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• VerfasserIn: Beitz, Charles R.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [1999]; ©1999
• Year of Publication: 1999
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (264 p.)

In this revised edition of his 1979 classic Political Theory and International Relations, Charles Beitz rejects two highly influential conceptions of international theory as empirically inaccurate and theoretically misleading. In one, international relations is a Hobbesian state of nature in which m...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Preface
• Introduction
• Part one. International Relations as A State of nature
• 1. The skepticism of the realists
• 2. The Hobbesian situation
• 3. International relation as a state of nature
• 4. The basis of international morality
• 5. From international skepticism to the morality of states
• Part two. The autonomy of states
• 1. State autonomy and individual liberty
• 2. Nonintervention, Paternalism, and Neutrality
• 3. Self-determination
• 4. Eligibility, boundaries, and nationality
• 5. Economic dependence
• 6. State autonomy and domestic social justice
• Part three. International distributive justice
• 1. Social cooperation, boundaries, and the basis of justice
• 2. Entitlements to natural resources
• 3. Interdependence and global distributive justice
• 4. Contrasts between international and domestic society
• 5. The rights of states
• 6. Applications to the Nonideal world
• Conclusion
• Afterword
• Works cited
• Index