Arendt and International Politics

JOHN WILLIAMS is Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Durham, UK. He is author of: Legitimacy in International Relations and The Rise and Fall of Yugoslavia (1998) and co-editor of, and contributor to, Global Citizenship: A Critical Reader (2002). He has also published articles in journals including Global Society, Journal of Peace Research and International Peacekeeping. ANTHONY LANG is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Albright College, Pennsylvania, USA. He has written or edited three books including Just Intervention

• Preface; A.Lang Jr . & J.Williams Introduction Hannah Arendt and International Affairs; A.Lang Jr . & J.Williams Hannah Arendt: A Biographical and Political Introduction; P.Owens Arendtian Readings of International Relations; Hannah Arendt, Publics and Violence; P.Owens Forgiveness and the Possibility of Politics in Post-Conflict Situations; A.Schaap Hannah Arendt and the "Right" to Have Rights; B.Cotter International Relations Readings of Arendt Hannah Arendt's Critical Realism: Rights, Power, and Responsibility; D.Klusmeyer Governance and Political Action: Hannah Arendt on Global Political Protest; A.Lang Jr. Hannah Arendt and the International Space In-between; J.Williams Arendt, Religion, and Cosmic War; C.Bagge Lausten Conclusions: the Arendtian Moment in International Relations?; A.Lang Jr .

"Lots of us in the field of International Relations know something about Hannah Arendt - her inquiries into the pathologies of the 20th century, her bracing affirmation of public life, her own life as emigre and intellectual, her remarkable personal and intellectual affiliations. Yet few of us have seen the relevance of Arendt's work to our own. The great virtue of this book is to show that Arendt's construction of the world, and especially her effort to fit classical republican premises to contemporary circumstances, points up the pathologies of the field - its uncritical realism, liberal yearnings and moral myopia - in more ways than we might have imagined possible." - Nicholas Onuf, Florida International University