Iacovos Kareklas

Thucydides on International Law and Political Theory

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book of Thucydidean scholarship demonstrates that international law existed in systematic form in classical Greece. Apart from comprising a philological analysis of some pivotal aspects of the history of the Peloponnesian War, the author argues that the work of Thucydides has greatly influenced contemporary international law and politics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 450g
• ISBN-13: 9781498599580
• ISBN-10: 1498599583
• Artikelnr.: 58291534

Autorenporträt

Iacovos Kareklas is associate professor at European University Cyprus.

Inhaltsangabe

I.Thucydidean Political Realism Athenian Great Power and Imperialism
Hegemonic War: Similarities between the Peloponnesian War and the Cold War
Theory of Foreign Policy International Law and Ethics in World Politics
II.Grounds of War in Classical Greek International Law and Causes of War in
Thucydides III.The Origins of Humanitarian Law of Armed Conflict in
Thucydides IV.Law of Treaties V.Personalities in Thucydides I. Alcibiades
II. The Funeral Speech of Pericles VI.Political Intelligence in the War of
the Peloponnesians and the Athenians VII.Strategy in the Peloponnesian War
and Modern International Politics The Grand Strategy of Sparta
VIII.Religion in the Politics of the Peloponnesian War Natural Phenomena
Ethics and Religion Oracles and Thucydides IX.Metaphysics in the History of
Thucydides and Herodotus Epilogue