The Return of the Theorists : Dialogues with Great Thinkers in International Relations (Hardcover)

Introduction - The Editors.- Chapter 1. Homer (c. 850 BCE) - Richard Ned Lebow.- Chapter 2. Conversations with Confucius (551-479 BCE) - Pichamon Yeophantong.- Chapter 3. Lao Zi (6th-5th century BCE?): Dao of International Politics - Chen Yudan.- Chapter 4. Thucydides (c.460 - c. 395 BCE): A Theorist for All Time - Richard Ned Lebow.- Chapter 5. Discussing War with Plato (429 - 347 BCE) - Christopher Coker.- Chapter 6. Aristotle (384 - 322 BCE): The Philosopher and the Discipline - Anthony F Lang, Jr. .- Chapter 7. Two Realisms of Niccolo Machiavelli (1469 - 1527) - Erica Benner.- Chapter 8. Thomas Hobbes (1588 - 1679) - Michael C. Williams.- Chapter 9. An Interview with John Locke (1632-1704) - Beate Jahn.- Chapter 10. Two Days in the Life of 'Dave' Hume (1711 - 1776) - Hidemi Suganami.- Chapter 11. The Dangers of Dependence: Sultan's Conversation with his master Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) - David Boucher.- Chapter 12. Immanuel Kant (1724 -1804): A little Kantian "Schwaermerei"- Friedrich Kratochwil.- Chapter 13. A Fine Bromance: Immanuel Kant (1724 - 1804) and Niccolo Machiavelli (1469 - 1527) - Sean Molloy.- Chapter 14. G.W.F. Hegel (1770 -1831) and international relations - Richard Beardsworth.- Chapter 15. A Brief Encounter with Major-General Carl von Clausewitz (1780 - 1831) - Jan Willem Honig.- Chapter 16. A Conversation with Karl Marx (1818 - 1883) on why there is no Socialism in the United States - Joshua Simon.- Chapter 17. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900) - Tracy B. Strong.- Chapter 18. Emile Durkheim (1858 - 1917) - Bertrand Badie.- Chapter 19. Theory Talk -100: John Dewey (1859 - 1952) on the Horror of Making his Poetry Public - Christian Bueger & Peer Schouten.- Chapter 20. Max Weber (1864 - 1920) - Richard Ned Lebow.- Chapter 21. The Republic of Norman Angell (1872 - 1967): A Dialogue (with apologies to Plato) - Lucian Ashworth.- Chapter 22. Functionalism in Uncommon Places: Electrifying the Hades with David Mitrany (1888 - 1975) - Jens Steffek.- Chapter 23. Dialogue with Arnold Wolfers (1892 - 1968) - James W. Davis.- Chapter 24. E. H. Carr (1892 - 1982) - Mick Cox.- Chapter 25. Modernity, Technology and Global Security: A Conversation with Lewis Mumford (1895-1990) - Rens van Munster & Casper Sylvest.- Chapter 26. More Fragments of an Intellectual Biography: Hans J. Morgenthau (1904-1980) - William E. Scheuerman.- Chapter 27. The return of the spectateur engage: Interview with Raymond Aron (1905 - 1983) - Ariane Chebel d'Appollonia.- Chapter 28. Hannah Arendt (1906 - 1975) - Kimberly Huntchings.- Chapter 29. Interview with John Herz (1908 - 2005) - Andrew Lawrence.- Chapter 30. Interview with Charles P. Kindleberger (1910 - 2003), The Reputed Progenitor of Hegemonic Stability Theory - Simon Reich.- Chapter 31. Karl Deutsch (1912 - 1992) Interviewed - Andrei Markovits.- Chapter 32. International Theory beyond the Three Traditions: A Student's Conversation with Martin Wight (1913 - 1972) - Ian Hall.- Chapter 33. John Rawls (1921 - 2002) - Huw L. Williams.- Chapter 34. The Spirit of Susan Strange (1923-1998) - Louis Pauly.- Chapter 35. Questioning Kenneth N. Waltz (1924 - 2013) - Hidemi Suganami and Adam Humphreys.- Chapter 36. Frantz Fanon (1925-1961) - Rita Abrahamsen.- Chapter 37. Deep hanging out with Michel Foucault (1926-1984) - Iver Neumann.- Chapter 38. Interviewing Pierre Bourdieu (1930 - 2002) about Pierre Bourdieu and International Relations - Anna Leander.- Chapter 39. Hedley Bull (1932 - 1985) - Robert Ayson.- Chapter 40. Jean Bethke Elshtain (1941 - 2013): A Woman's Refuge, Baghdad, Summer 2015 - Caroline Kennedy-Pipe.- Conclusions - The Editors.- Index. .-