Palgrave Handbook of International Political Theory

Howard Williams is Distinguished Honorary Professor in the School of Law and Politics at Cardiff University, and Emeritus Professor of Political Theory in the Department of International Politics at Aberystwyth University, UK.David Boucher is Professor of Political Philosophy and International Relations at the University of Cardiff, UK, and Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Johannesburg (2015-25), South Africa.Peter Sutch is Professor of Political and International Theory at Cardiff University, UK. He is also Visiting Professor at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.David Reidy is Professor of Philosophy at The University of Tennessee, USA.Alexandros Koutsoukis is Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Central Lancashire, UK.

• Introduction (David Boucher, Alexandros Koutsoukis, David Reidy, David Sullivan, Peter Sutch, and Howard Williams).- Part I: The Ancient World.- Chapter 1. The Chinese Contribution to Theorizing International Relations (Rosita Dellios).- Chapter 2.Thucydides and Social Processes: Beyond Tragedy (Alexandros Koutsoukis).- Chapter 3. Stoicism, Cicero and Relations Among Nations (David Boucher).- Part II: Early Christianity and Early Modern Christianity.- Chapter 4. Augustine, Realism, and their Revealed Truth (Huw L. Williams) .- Chapter 5. The Roman Empire and the Universal Church (Cary C. Nederman) .- Chapter 6. Crusader-Muslim Relations: The Power of Diplomacy in a Troubling Age (Suleiman A. Mourad) .- Chapter 7. The Conceptual Challenge: Europe and the New World (Camilla Boisen).- Part III: The Westphalian Moment.- Chapter 8.Dynamic cosmopolis: The “Westphalian world order” and beyond (Georg Cavallar) .- Chapter9.The Cosmopolitan Challenge: Cosmopolitan Ideas in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century (Oliver Eberl).- Chapter 10. The Positivist Challenge, the Rise of Realism, and the Demise of Nationalism (Felix Rösch).- Part IV: Colonialism, Decolonisation and Postcolonialism.- Chapter 11. Amílcar Cabral and the International: Race, Colonialism, Liberation (Branwen Gruffydd Jones) .- Chapter 12. Imperialism and its critics (Demin Duan and Howard Williams) .- Chapter 13. The African Challenge and its Aftermath: Colonial Legacies and the (Re)making of the International Legal Order (Sara Dezalay) .- Chapter 14. New Imperialism (Brett Bowden).- Part V: Progress and Promise of International Law.- Chapter 15. Practicing Humanity: Humanisation and Contemporary International Political Theory (Peter Sutch and Oliver Pierce) .- Chapter 16. Hegel and International Political Theory (Tony Burns) .- Chapter 17. Just War Theory: Past, Present, and Future (Cian O’Driscoll).- Chapter 18. Three Axial Ages of Religion, Law and Global Constitutionalism (Hauke Brunkhorst).- Part VI: Challenges to Sovereignty, Territory and Borders.- Chapter 19. Conceptual Foundations of Sovereignty and the Rise of the Modern State (Silviya Lechner).- Chapter 20. Nationalism and Intrastate Diversities (Andrew Vincent) .- Chapter 21. Universal Obligations: Jus Cogens and Obligations (Erga Omnes Christian Tomuschat) .- Chapter 22. Self-Determination and Secession: An Act of Collective Emancipation (Costas Laoutides) .- Chapter 23. Migration Across Borders (Gillian Brock).- Chapter 24. Remedying Cosmopolitan Wrongs: Indigenous Peoples, Kant, and Historical Injustice (Timothy Waligore) .- Chapter 25.Women and War (Caron E. Gentry and Rebecca Wilson).