TY - JOUR
AU - David, Bentley
AB - Book reviews Armitage and Quentin Skinner as major influences on his work and, in particular, on his attempts to bridge the intellectual gap between political theory and its international counterpart. To this end, we are offered a detailed, indeed exhaustive, discussion of Pufendorf ’s writings, conclusively demonstrating that there is an ‘intellectual convergence’ (currently unacknowledged in the literature) between the political theory of Hobbes and Pufendorf, who is described as a ‘closeted Hobbesian who strategically works to create a gulf between himself and his predecessor’ (p. 28). Furthermore, in chapter six, the author claims that behind his ‘international sociability’ there lurks a ‘fundamental agreement with Hobbes: states voluntarily enter into alliances of utility in closely replicating the strength of defence confederacies among natural men’ (p. 28). Similarly, the analysis of the works of Rousseau and Vattel, and their relevance for an understanding of Hobbes, is well done: for Christov, Rousseau ‘remains trapped in his own pessimism about international peace: a permanent state of war amongst states is the price to pay for maintaining their domestic liberty’ (p. 28). By contrast, Vattel ‘squares the circle of state sovereignty with duties to humanity’ (p. 28). These brief summaries do scant justice 
TI - Terrorism and the right to resist: a theory of just revolutionary war. By Christopher J. Finlay
JO - International Affairs
DO - 10.1111/1468-2346.12711
DA - 2016-09-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/terrorism-and-the-right-to-resist-a-theory-of-just-revolutionary-war-0kuT2f0nFb
SP - 1252
EP - 1254
VL - 92
IS - 5
DP - DeepDyve
ER -