Thucydides and Political Order (eBook)

Christian R. Thauer is Senior Lecturer in International Relations and at the Center for German Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. He holds a PhD from the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. His thesis was awarded the International Studies Association International Political Economy (ISA-IPE) Best Dissertation Prize 2009/10. Before joining the Hebrew University, Thauer taught at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany and was a Visiting Fellow at the University of Washington, Seattle, USA. Thauer is the co-editor of Business and Governance in South Africa and has published various articles on political economy and governance.Christian Wendt is Professor of Ancient History at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany and head of the Berlin Thucydides Center. His publications include Sine fine (2008) and numerous articles on Greek historiography and political thought, ancient international law, and the reception of Thucydides in modern political theory. He is the co-editor of 2000 Jahre Varusschlacht (2012) and is currently co-editing a volume on ancient sea power.

PART I – INTRODUCTION: THUCYDIDES AND POLITICAL ORDER1. Introduction: Thucydides and Political Order; Christian R. Thauer and Christian WendtPART II – THUCYDIDES AND THE MODERN READER: METHODOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS FROM DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES2. Contextualism and Universalism in Thucydidean Thought; Neville Morley3. It's Time For History! Thucydides in International Relations: Towards a Post-'Westphalian' Reading of a Pre-'Westphalian' Author; Christian R. Thauer4. Between office and tyranny, internal and external rulership: arch? in Herodotus and Thucydides; Peter Spahn 5. Turannis in the work of Thucydides; Martin Dreher (Magdeburg)PART III – REPRESENTATIONS OF ORDER IN THUCYDIDES6. Beneath Politics: Thucydides on the Body as the Ground and Limit of the Political Regime; Clifford Orwin7. The 'Rule of the Sea': Thucydidean Concept or Periclean Utopia?; Hans Kopp8. Civic Trust in Thucydides' History; Ryan Balot