Hobbesian Internationalism

Silviya Lechner was Assistant Professor and is currently a senior visiting research fellow at King’s College London, UK. She specialises in social and political philosophy, theory of action, and international political theory. She is the co-author of Practice Theory and International Relations (with M. Frost, 2018).

• PART I. Authority.- Chapter 1. Reading Hobbes as a Theorist of Anarchy and Authority.- Chapter 2. Authority and the Problem of Political Philosophy.- PART II.  Anarchy.- Chapter 3. The State of Nature in The Elements.- Chapter 4. The State of Nature in De Cive.- Chapter 5. The State of Nature in Leviathan.- PART III. Hobbes’s Theory of International Relations.- Chapter 6. Hobbes and the International Anarchy.- Chapter 7. Hobbesian Internationalism: Hobbes Meets Kant.- Chapter 8. Challenges: Globalisation and the Resurgence of Private Authority.