British Modern International Thought in the Making

lt;p>Benjamin Bourcier is Associate Professor of Philosophy, ESPOL, Catholic University of Lille, France. His main research interests are in history of international political thought, cosmopolitanism, Jeremy Bentham, enlightenment

Mikko Jakonen is Senior Lecturer in Social and Public Policy, University of Jyväskylä, Finland. His main research interests are in social policy, political theory, economy and history of political thought.

Chapter 1: Benjamin Bourcier and Mikko Jakonen: Introduction.- Part I: Early Modern British International Thought.- Chapter 2: Carlos Eduardo Suprinyak: Grotius Among the English Merchants: Mare Liberum and Anglo-Dutch Rivalry in the Early Seventeenth Century.- Chapter 3: Mikko Jakonen: Hobbes and the Problem of International Trade.- Chapter 4: Daniel Layman: Locke's Conflicted Cosmopolitanism: Individualism and Empire.- Part II: The Scottish School of Political Economy within International Thought.- Chapter 5: Erik W. Matson: "To Keep Industry Alive": Hume on Freer International Trade as Moral Improvement.- Chapter 6: Edwin van de Haar: Human Nature as the Foundation of Adam Smith's International Theory.- Chapter 7: Benoît Walraevens: Colonization, Commerce and Global History: Adam Smith and Raynal's Histoire des Deux Indes.- Chapter 8: Laurie Bréban & Jean Dellemotte: Remote Encounters of a Distant Kind: Natives and Westerners in Adam Smith's International Thought.-Part III: Bentham's Political Economy and International Theory.- Chapter 9: Nathalie Sigot: One Conclusion and Two Explanations: Bentham's Economic Analysis of International Trade.- Chapter 10: Michael Quinn: Bentham via Dumont on the Balance of Trade.- Chapter 11: Benjamin Bourcier: Jeremy Bentham's Politics of Global Commerce as a Limit-Case.- Chapter 12: Eileen M. Hunt: Women's Misery and Women's Rights in International Law and Literature: Wollstonecraft, Malthus, Bentham, and Shelley.