The Palgrave Handbook of International Political Theory: Volume I

Preface
Acknowledgements
Praise for The Palgrave Handbook of International Political Theory
Contents
Notes on Contributors
1 Introduction
	Part I: The Ancient World
	Part II: Early and Early Modern Christianity
	Part III: The Westphalian Moment
	Part IV: Colonialism, Decolonisation and Post-colonialism
	Part V: Progress and Promise of International Law
	Part VI: Challenges to Sovereignty, Territory and Borders
	Reference
Part I The Ancient World
2 The Chinese Contribution to Theorizing International Relations
	Introduction
	Four Philosophies and Six Concepts
	Survey on Current Thinking
	Gender and Race/Ethnic Relations
		Gender in Chinese Thought: The Visible and the Invisible
		Race and Ethnicity in Chinese Thought: Tianxia in the Making
	Conclusion
	Note
	References
3 Thucydides and Social Processes: Beyond Tragedy
	Decontextualised Comparisons: Melos and Acanthus
	Thucydides’ Ambiguous Assessment of Brasidas’ Military Campaign in Northern Greece
	The Processual Context: Beyond Tragedy
	The Processual Context: Civilisation, Civil War and War
	Brasidas’ Military Campaign in Processual Context
	Conclusion
	References
4 Stoicism, Cicero and Relations Among Nations
	Introduction
	Reason
	The Universal Natural Law
	Equality
	Political Communities
	The Hierarchy of Duties
	Duties
	The Law of Nature and the Law of Nations
	Rome and the Wider World
	Conclusion
	References
Part II Early Christianity and Early Modern Christianity
5 Augustine, Realism, and Their Revealed Truth
	Augustine’s Anthropology and Politics
		The Pelagian Controversy
		Augustine’s Political Philosophy
	The Augustinian Legacy
		Classical Realism—Schmitt & Morgenthau
		The Animus Dominandi
		Challenging the Creation Myth of Realism
	References
6 The Roman Empire and the Universal Church
	The Papacy
	Giles of Rome
	The Holy Roman Empire
	Dante
	Engelbert of Admont
	William of Ockham
	Nicholas of Cusa
	The Waning of Medieval Universalism
	References
7 Crusader–Muslim Relations: The Power of Diplomacy in a Troubling Age
	Conceptual Issues First
	Justifications for Peace
	Sultan Al-Kamil and Emperor Frederick II
	The Third Crusade
	Post-Third Crusade
	The Image of the Other
	Issue of Sovereignty
	Concluding Reflections
	References
8 The Conceptual Challenge: Europe and the New World
	Introduction
	The Recognition of Non-Christians (Infidel Rights)
	Just War (Right to Missionary War)
	Legitimacy of Indigenous Political Authority (Right to Colonise)
	Conclusion
	References
Part III The Westphalian Moment
9 Dynamic Cosmopolis: The “Westphalian World Order” and Beyond
	The “Westphalian World Order” and International Legal Theory
	The Early Modern European Background: Transcending or Dissolving Boundaries
	Dynamic Legal Cosmopolitanism
	Dynamic Commercial Cosmopolitanism
	References
10 The Cosmopolitan Challenge: Cosmopolitan Ideas in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century
	Political and Philosophical Cosmopolitanism in the Eighteenth Century
	Cosmopolitan Law and Kant’s Critique of Colonialism
	The Abolition of the Slave Trade and Slavery
	Peace Societies and the War Referendum
	The Geneva League of Nations and the End of the Right to War
	Note
	References
11 The Positivist Challenge, the Rise of Realism, and the Demise of Nationalism
	Introduction
	Credentialed Social Scientists vs. Critical International Theorists
	Reflexivity and an Ethics of Anti-Hubris
	Emotions and Art History
	Conclusion
	Note
	References
Part IV Colonialism, Decolonisation and Postcolonialism
12 Amílcar Cabral and the International: Race, Colonialism, Liberation
	Introduction
	Cabral and the International
		Race
		Colonialism and Imperialism
		Liberation
	Cabral and Anticolonial Thought
	Conclusion
	References
13 Imperialism and Its Critics
	Two Critics and a Realist, from Kant to Marx
	Hegel and the Forward March of Spirit—The Right of Imperialism
	Marx
	‘Liberal Imperialism’: Mill and Tocqueville
	Tocqueville
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
14 The African Challenge and Its Aftermath: Colonial Legacies and the (Re)making of the International Legal Order
	Law in the African “Post-Colony”: Two Tales of Globalization
	Law in the African Post-Colony: The Puzzle of Legacy
	Africa’s Lawyers: Between Imperial Legacies and Transformations in Global Capitalism
	Africa in the (Re)making of the International Legal and Economic Order
	Notes
	References
15 New Imperialism
	Introduction
	New Imperialisms
	Humanitarian Imperialism
	Economic Imperialism
	Western/American Imperialism
	Moral Imperialism
	Conclusion
	References
Part V Progress and Promise of International Law
16 Practicing Humanity: Humanisation and Contemporary International Political Theory
	Introduction
	Humanisation in International Law
	Humanisation and Contemporary International Political Theory
	Humanisation and Progress
	Conclusion
	References
17 Hegel and International Political Theory
	Introduction
	Hegel on Politics as a ‘Struggle for Recognition’
	Hegel and International Relations
	Hegel and Colonialism
	Hegel and Cosmopolitanism
	Conclusion
	Note
	References
18 Just War Theory: Past, Present, and Future
	Introduction
	Past
	Present
		Discovery
		Interpretation
		Invention
	Future
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
19 Three Axial Ages of Religion, Law and Global Constitutionalism
	Introduction
	Societal Formations, Worldviews, Formative Periods
		Societal Formations—Decentering Eurocentrism
		Worldviews as the Superstructure of Axial Turns and Global Legal Revolutions
		Formative Periods: Abysses and Bridges
	Second Axial Age of Law
		First Modern Constitution of Europe
		Libertas Ecclesiae
		The Second Axial Age: Law that is Emancipatory
	Third Axial Age of Global Constitutionalism
	Notes
	References
Part VI Challenges to Sovereignty, Territory and Borders
20 Conceptual Foundations of Sovereignty and the Rise of the Modern State
	The Discourse of Sovereignty
	Bodin on Sovereignty
	Hobbes: The Sovereign State
	Locke’s Theory of Government
	Rousseau: Popular Sovereignty and the General Will
	Kant: The Rule-of-Law State and the Sovereign
	External Sovereignty
	Notes
	References
21 Nationalism and Intrastate Diversities
	Introduction
	Setting the Scene: International Relations
	National, Nation and Nationalism: A First Look
	Is There a Unitary Understanding of the National and Nationalism?
	Responses to the National Idea
	Nationalism and Intrastate Diversities
	Multiculturalism and Intrastate Diversity
	Nation and State
	States and Nations
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
22 Universal Obligations: Jus Cogens and Obligations Erga Omnes
	Historical Background
	The UN Charter as the Centre of Legitimate Normative Authority
	The Legal Tools: Article 38 of the Statute of the International Court of Justice
	Specificities of the Legal Sources Listed in Article 38 ICJ Statute
		International Treaties
		International Customary Law
		General Principles of Law
	The ‘Super-Norms’: Jus Cogens and Obligations Erga Omnes
		Jus Cogens
			Historical Background
			Substantive Content
			Progressive Consolidation
			Emergence of Jus Cogens as Norms of Ordre Public in International Law
			Legal Consequences
		Obligations Erga Omnes
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
23 Self-Determination and Secession: An Act of Collective Emancipation
	Introduction
	Individual and Collective Notions of Self-Determination
	Theoretical Approaches to Secessionist (External) Self-Determination
		Remedial or Just Cause Theories
		National Theories of Secession
		Secession as an Individual Choice
	Conclusion
	Note
	References
24 Migration Across Borders
	Introduction
	Arguments for the State’s Right to Control Immigration
	Arguments for More Free Movement Across Borders
	Responsibilities to Refugees
		Who Counts as a Refugee?
		Duties to Refugees
	Some Further Contemporary Issues
		Admissions, Culture, Citizenship Criteria, and Integration
		Undocumented Migrants and Justice
		Temporary Migration and Justice
		Justice in Out-Migration
		Critiques from Critical Border Studies
	COVID-19 and Borders: Some Concluding Reflections
	References
25 Remedying Cosmopolitan Wrongs: Indigenous Peoples, Kant, and Historical Injustice
	Introduction
	Provisional Right, Indigenous Peoples, and the State
	Historical Injustice and the Spirit of Cosmopolitan Right
	Challenges to Invoking Cosmopolitan Right for Redress
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
26 Women and War
	The Pioneering Legacies of Elshtain and Enloe
		Jean Bethke Elshtain
		Cynthia Enloe
	War, Masculinity, and Men
		The Co-constitutive Nature of War
		Men and War
	Problematising the Binaries
	Queering Women and War
	Conclusion
	References
Correction to: Amílcar Cabral and the International: Race, Colonialism, Liberation
	Correction to:  Chapter 12 in: H. Williams et al. (eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of International Political Theory, International Political Theory, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-36111-1_12
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