Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought

This article draws on Hobbes and existentialist philosophy to contend that anxiety needs to be integrated into international relations (IR) theory as a constitutive condition, and proposes theoretical avenues for doing so. While IR scholars routinely base their assumptions regarding the centrality of fear and self-hel…

• BAHAR RUMELİLİ SANCAK

Abstract Politics has been defined in different and contradictory ways in the last century or so. If politics is to be a single subject of study then contradictory theories should be capable of being related together. In this article I argue that they can be related in terms of what I call the Aristotelian criterion.…

• JOHN JAMES ALEXANDER

This article attempts to provide a correction to the exclusive realist interpretations of Thomas Hobbes. It makes the point that Hobbes is not as close to a realist understanding of international relations as has been prevalently held. Given Hobbes's conception of man and the state of nature, the formation of Leviatha…

A common criticism of Fichte’s political thought is that it is not systematically connected to his idea of self-positing, which would amount to a rift in his practical philosophy. This criticism can be countered through an extensive analysis of Fichte’s view of rational society. This view involves not just a portrayal…

International Relations and the Philosophy of History examines the concept of civilization in relation to international systems through an extensive use of the literature in the philosophy of history.

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• NEDİM NAMİ NOMER

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Postmodern siyaset felsefesi modern siyaset felsefesinin radikal bir eleştirisi olarak kendini gösterir. Özcülük modern siyaset felsefesinin en temel özelliğidir. Postmodern siyaset felsefesi özcülüğe karşıdır. Postmodern siyaset felsefesi özcülüğün farklılıkların bastırılmasını meşrulaştırdığını iddia eder. Postmoder…

Locke's conceptualization of sovereignty and its uses, combining theological, social, and political perspectives, testifies to his intellectual profundity that was spurred by his endeavour to re-traditionalize a changing world. First, by relying on the traditional, personalistic notion of polity, Locke developed a con…

• BEDRİ GENCER

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a society based on popular sovereignty, where law emerges from the will of man rather than the will of God, as a form of tyranny, so it would seem that he is in principle opposed to Western liberal societies.It is not clear, however, that we, or Islamic fundamentalist, need to regard Western liberal societies as based…

Acknowledgements Introduction Theory or Coffee without Sugar History or Did Napoleon Win at Waterloo? Universal History or the World as We Know It Civilization or Naked Greed Civilizations or Realities of the Extreme Longue Duree Modern International System I or No Rock Without a Flag Modern International System II or…