Ioannis D. Evrigenis

Fear of Enemies and Collective Action

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Produktbeschreibung

Explores the way the fear of enemies shapes political groups and helps to preserve them in times of crisis.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 418g
• ISBN-13: 9780521177870
• ISBN-10: 0521177871
• Artikelnr.: 28513808

Autorenporträt

Ioannis D. Evrigenis is Associate Professor Political Science, with a secondary appointment in Classics, at Tufts University, where he directs the Bodin Project. Fear of Enemies and Collective Action received the 2009 Delba Winthrop Award for Excellence in Political Science. Evrigenis is also coeditor of Herder's Another Philosophy of History and Selected Political Writings.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue
Introduction
1. Negative association
2. 'Carthage must be saved'
3. Enemies at the gates: Machiavelli's return to the beginnings of cities
4. The enemy of my enemy is my friend: negative association and reason of state
5. Survival through fear: Hobbes's problem and solution
6. Hobbism
7. The politics of enmity
Epilogue.