In Fathers of International Thought, renowned foreight affairs scholar Kenneth W. Thompson returns to the writings of sixteen pre-twentieth-century thinkers in order to better understand the issues and problems that recurrently beset global politics.
A companion to Thompson's Masters of International Thought, in which he analyzed the thinking of 18 leading 20th-century political theorists, the present volume traces the ideas of 16 classical political philosophers from Plato to the 19th century, focusing on the importance...