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Torbjorn L. Knutsen introduces ideas on international relations expressed by thinkers from the High Middle Ages to the present day and traces the development of
This volume offers an accessible and wide-ranging introduction to the history of international political thought. Taking as its starting-point the various conce
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The 1954 Conference on Theory, sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation, featured a 'who's who' of scholars and practitioners debating what would become the foun