Bibliography

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 * Boucher, David. 1998. //Political Theories of International Relations//. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Links: [|Library catalog].
 * Walzer, Michael. 2006. //Just and Unjust Wars//. New York: Basic Books. This title is on 3-hour (open) reserve at the [|library]. A contemporary exposition and application of just war theory, with many concrete examples. Highly recommended.

General

 * Balot, Ryan K. 2006. //Greek Political Thought//. Malden, MA: Blackwell. Links: [|Library catalog], [|Table of Contents], [|NDPR review].

Thucydides
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Aristotle
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Stoicism
An account of the political thought of the Stoics from Zeno to the early Roman empire. Somewhat technical at times. [|Library catalog]. A collection of fragments from ancient sources recording the writings of various stoic philosophers (which no longer exist independently). It is organized thematically and contains useful introductions to all the major themes and problems in early Stoic philosophy. A (somewhat technical) account of the political thought of the early stoics and its transformation in Roman times. [|Library catalog]. =Just War=
 * Erskine, Andrew. 1990. //The Hellenistic Stoa//. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
 * Long, A. A., and D. N. Sedley. 1987. //The Hellenistic Philosophers//. 2 vols. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. [|Library catalog].
 * Schofield, Malcolm. 1999. //The Stoic Idea of the City//. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Augustine
The standard biography of Augustine. A very readable, even personal, account of Augustine's political thought. Chapter 5 is especially good on Augustine's thought on international relations.
 * Brown, Peter. 1967 [New edition 2000]. //Augustine of Hippo//. London: Faber and Faber. [|Library catalog].
 * Bethke Elshtain, Jean. 1995. //Augustine and the Limits of Politics//. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press. [|Library catalog].
 * Loriaux, Michael. 1992. "The Realists and Saint Augustine: Skepticism, Psychology, and Moral Action in International Relations Thought." //International Studies Quarterly//, Vol. 36, No. 4. (Dec., 1992), pp. 401-420. [|Link].
 * Abstract**: The political thought of Saint Augustine contributed, primarily through the writings of Reinhold Niebuhr, to the development of political realism in the twentieth century. Augustine and the realist share a fundamental skepticism regarding the prospects of moral and political progress. It is this skepticism that is the characteristic and even definitional attribute of realist thought. But Augustine's realism is more radical than that of the modern. Modern realism assumes a certain stylized psychology that allows the realist to portray world politics as an arena of strategic interaction. Augustine's more radical skepticism doubts the possibility of rational strategic action. Yet, building on this more radical skepticism, Augustine demonstrates the possibility and the need for moral action in a realist world. Augustine challenges the modern realist to explore more systematically the skeptical foundations of realist thought.

Aquinas
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Erasmus
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Vitoria
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Machiavelli
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Hobbes
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Grotius

 * Steven Forde. 1998. "Hugo Grotius on Ethics and War." //The American Political Science Review//, Vol. 92, No. 3, pp. 639-648. [|Link].
 * Abstract**: Interest in the thought of Hugo Grotius on international law and ethics is justified inasmuch as he attempted to define a theoretical position between an idealism he thought counterproductive and an amoral realism he found unacceptable. Grotius constructed a system in which the moral authority of natural law was combined with the flexibility of human law. This required him to develop a special understanding of the nature and relation of these two types of law. In giving the law of nations, as a product of human will, the authority to suspend provisions of natural law, he provided for a code of international conduct that could permit injustice where necessary, without abandoning moral ideals altogether.
 * Knud Haakonssen. 1985. "Hugo Grotius and the History of Political Thought." //Political Theory//, Vol. 13, No. 2., pp. 239-265.[|Link].

Rousseau
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Mill
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Kant
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Hegel
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Marx
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 * Rawls, John. 1999. //The law of peoples//. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. [|Library catalog].