Overview
- Only book to provide an innovative analysis social contract theorists claims regarding the relationship between nation states
- Looks collectively at the leading proponents of the social contract tradition within the context of international relations
- Specifically concerned with war and peace, world governance, inequality, and terroris
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About this book
This book provides a systematic analysis of Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau and Kant with respect to international relations. These philosophers belong to the social contract tradition and are considered some of the most influential political theorists. Their ideas have played a role in the formation of national political constitutions and remain very influential both in understanding and legitimising the structure of societies around the world. This book is an innovative analysis of what these thinkers have claimed regarding the relationship between nation states, rather than contributing to the established scholarship on what they have said about individual political societies. Specifically, individual chapters examine war and peace, world governance, inequality, and terrorism.
Keywords
- Domestic social contract theory
- Philosophical approaches to international relations
- Political philosophy
- Social Contract of Hobbes
- Social Contract of Locke
- Social Contract of Rousseau
- Social Contract of Kant
- Social Contract of Rawls
- Hypothetical formation of individual political societies
- Concepts of war and peace
- Analysis of the theorists’ views of colonialism, imperialism
- Analysis of the theorists’ views ownership of the sea
- Contract theorist Charles-Irénée Castel, abbé de Saint-Pierre
- Acts of international terrorism
- Fundamental moral philosophy
- What distinguishes man from animal
- Non-human animals cannot be party to a social contract
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Stephen Chadwick was awarded a British Academy funded PhD in social and political philosophy at the University of Aberdeen in 1998 under the supervision of Dr Nigel Dower. After a period teaching moral and political philosophy at Aberdeen, he gained an MA in Social Work from the University of Hull and subsequently worked in the field of drug prevention. On relocating to New Zealand in 2004 he returned to academic philosophy at Massey University. His areas of research include political philosophy, gender ideology, and aesthetics. He is the co-author of two books on astrophotography and aesthetics, both published by Springer, and has edited a collection of essays on applied ethics for Massey University Press.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Social Contract Theory and International Relations
Book Subtitle: From Hobbes to Kant
Authors: Stephen Chadwick
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-64220-3Due: 18 September 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-64223-4Due: 18 September 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-64221-0Due: 18 September 2024
Edition Number: 1