EBOOK

Restraining Power

The Law of Nature and the Theory of International Relations

David C. Hendrickson
(0)
Pages
336
Year
2026
Language
English

About

PREFACE

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

A NOTE ON THE BIBLIOGRAPHY



I. The War Problem

1. The Duty of Peace

2. The Goals of States

3. Cold Monsters

4. A Pattern in Miniature



II.Facts and Values

5. Three Ways of Knowing

6. Parsimony and Prediction as False Gods

7. A Different Map



III. Rival Approaches

8. The American Science of International Politics

9. International Society and the English School



IV.The Law of Nature on a New Foundation

10. Grotius Breaks the Ice

11. The Significance of Hobbes

12. Samuel Pufendorf is the Man

13. Vattel: The Law of Nature Applied to Nations

14. The Rise and Fall of Legal Positivism

15. The UN Charter and the Law of Nature

16. The Preeminent Theory of International Relations



V.Classical Realism and Classical Idealism

17. Reason of State

18. Diplomacy and Duplicity

19. Thucydides and the War of the Peloponnese

20. Hard and Soft Realism

21. The Classical Idealists



VI.The American Realists

22. The Enigma of Hans J. Morgenthau

23. The Realists and US Foreign Policy

24. The Clash of Civilizations



VII.Four Doctrines in Liberalism

25. Two Directions for the Law of Nature

26. The Rise of the Market

27. Natural Right and the African Slave Trade

28. Institutional Liberalism and the American Founding

29. The Use and Abuse of Democratic Peace Theory

30. A Balance Sheet



VIII.Contemporary IR Theory and the Washington Policy Debate

31. Lebow and the Ancients

32. Republican Security Theory

33. Nonzerosumness and Restraint

34. Hegemonic Discourses

35. States and Nations

36. Mugged by Reality: IR Theory and American Militarism

37. Hawks and Doves



IX.Varieties of Revolutionism

38. Neoconservatism: The United States as a Revolutionary Power

39. Radical Enlightenment

40. Rival Theories of Intervention

41. Marxism and the Class Struggle

42. Hard and Soft Revolutionism

43. Edmund Burke and the Constitutional Tradition



X.The Law of Nature in the 21st Century

44. What the Law of Nature Is

45. The United States and the Law of Nature

46. In Defense of Pluralism

47. Cognitive Empathy

48. Lasting Relevance



SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Related Subjects

Artists