89:2 April 2006
The Foundations of International Order 

Advisory Editor: Bruce Kuklick, University of Pennsylvania

Ever since the rise of the modern state system the issue of the foundations of international order has attracted much discussion. We invite submissions furthering this discussion and focusing especially on the role and nature of communal violence and coercion and also of diplomacy and other non-violent means in the resolution and avoidance of international conflict. We are interested in the analysis of ideas pertinent to the study of international relations – for example notions of international law, raison d’État the balance of power, or of realism and idealism in foreign policy. Papers are also invited on the issue of cultural, religious, or moral constraint on policy. The Monist hopes to publish a range of essays that touch on connected areas in a range of disciplines, including history, political science, strategic studies, and philosophy. Also welcome are substantive articles on theoreticians of international politics such as Machiavelli, Hobbes, Kant, Clausewitz and also on practitioners such as Napoleon, Bismarck, Wilson, Stalin, Kissinger.

Table of Contents:

Marc Trachtenberg

The Problem of International Order and How to Think About It

W. Julian Korab-Karpowicz

How International Relations Theorists Can Benefit by Reading Thucydides

Tom Sorell

Hobbes on Trade, Consumption and International Order

Kristen Hessler

Democratic Government and International Justice

Robert Jackson

Doctrinal War: Religion and Ideology in International Conflict

Philip Pettit,

Democracy, National and International

David Kaiser

Neither Marxist nor Whig:  The Great Atlantic Crises, 1774-1962, and the Foundations of Domestic and International Order

Tomas Kapitan

Self-Determination and International Order