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The Return of the Theorists
The Return of the Theorists Dialogues with Great Thinkers in International Relations Edited by
Richard Ned Lebow King’s College London, UK
Peer Schouten
Danish Institute for International Studies, Denmark
and
Hidemi Suganami
Aberystwyth University, UK
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List of Contributors Introduction Richard Ned Lebow, Peer Schouten and Hidemi Suganami 1 Homer (c.850 BCE) Richard Ned Lebow
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2 Conversations with Confucius (551–479 BCE) Pichamon Yeophantong 3 Lao Zi (6th–5th century BCE?): Dao of International Politics Chen Yudan
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4 Thucydides (c.460–c.395 BCE): A Theorist for All Time Richard Ned Lebow
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5 Discussing War with Plato (429–347 BCE) Christopher Coker
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6 Aristotle (384–322 BCE): The Philosopher and the Discipline Anthony F. Lang, Jr
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7 Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527): Two Realisms Erica Benner
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8 Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679) Michael C. Williams
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9 An Interview with John Locke (1632–1704) Beate Jahn
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10 Two Days in the Life of ‘Dave’ Hume (1711–1776) Hidemi Suganami 11 The Dangers of Dependence: Sultan’s Conversation with His Master Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) David Boucher 12 Immanuel Kant (1724–1804): A Little Kantian ‘Schwaermerei’ Friedrich Kratochwil 13 A Fine Bromance: Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) and Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527) Seán Molloy v
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14 G.W.F. Hegel (1770–1831) and International Relations Richard Beardsworth
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15 A Brief Encounter with Major-General Carl von Clausewitz (1780–1831) Jan Willem Honig
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16 A Conversation with Karl Marx (1818–1883) on Why There Is No Socialism in the United States Joshua Simon
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17 Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) Tracy B. Strong
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18 Émile Durkheim (1858–1917) Bertrand Badie
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19 Theory Talk #-100: John Dewey (1859–1952) on the Horror of Making His Poetry Public Christian Bueger and Peer Schouten 20 Max Weber (1864–1920) Richard Ned Lebow
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21 The Republic of Norman Angell (1872–1967): A Dialogue (with Apologies to Plato) Lucian M. Ashworth
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22 Functionalism in Uncommon Places: Electrifying the Hades with David Mitrany (1888–1975) Jens Steffek
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23 Dialogue with Arnold Wolfers (1892–1968) James W. Davis
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24 E.H. Carr (1892–1982) Michael Cox
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25 Modernity, Technology and Global Security: A Conversation with Lewis Mumford (1895–1990) Rens van Munster and Casper Sylvest
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26 More Fragments of an Intellectual Biography: Hans J. Morgenthau (1904–1980) William E. Scheuerman
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27 The Return of the spectateur engagé: Interview with Raymond Aron (1905–1983) Ariane Chebel d’Appollonia
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28 A Conversation with Hannah Arendt (1906–1975) Kimberly Hutchings
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29 Interview with John Herz (1908–2005) Andrew Lawrence
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30 Interview with Charles P. Kindleberger (1910–2003), the Reputed Progenitor of Hegemonic Stability Theory Simon Reich 31 Karl W. Deutsch (1912–1992) Interviewed Andrei S. Markovits 32 International Theory beyond the Three Traditions: A Student’s Conversation with Martin Wight (1913–1972) Ian Hall
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33 John Rawls (1921–2002) Huw L. Williams
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34 The Spirit of Susan Strange (1923–1998) Louis W. Pauly
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35 Questioning Kenneth N. Waltz (1924–2013) Adam Humphreys and Hidemi Suganami
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36 Frantz Fanon (1925–1961) Rita Abrahamsen
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37 Deep Hanging Out with Michel Foucault (1926–1984) Iver B. Neumann
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38 Interviewing Pierre Bourdieu (1930–2002) about Pierre Bourdieu and International Relations Anna Leander 39 Hedley Bull (1932–1985) Robert Ayson 40 Jean Bethke Elshtain (1941–2013): A Women’s Refuge, Baghdad, Summer 2015 Caroline Kennedy-Pipe
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Conclusions Richard Ned Lebow, Peer Schouten and Hidemi Suganami
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Index
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