FOUNDATIONS OF MODERN INTERNATIONAL THOUGHT

Between the early seventeenth and mid-nineteenth centuries, major European political thinkers first began to look outside their nati onal borders and envisage a world of competitive, equal sovereign states inhabiting an international sphere that ultimately encompas sed the whole globe. In this insightful and wide-ranging work, David Armitage - one of the world's leading historians of political t hought - traces the genesis of this international turn in intellectual history. Foundations of Modern International Thought combines importa...[Read more]