Four seminal thinkers in international theory: Machiavelli, Grotius, Kant, and Mazzini

Martin Wight was one of the most profound thinkers on international relations of his generation. This volume brings together his previously unpublished material on the political thinking of the four great international thinkers - Machiavelli Grotius, Kant and Mazzini

Martin Wight was one of the most profound and influential thinkers on international relations of his time; and his work is increasingly discussed, appraised, and drawn upon today. His earlier volume of posthumously-published lectures - International Theory: The Three Traditions - is now regarded as a seminal text. That volume is here complemented and completed. In these four lectures Wight takes the archetypal thinkers of the three traditions - Machiavelli, Grotius, and Kant - to whom he adds Mazzini, the father of all revolutionary nationalism (and so the prototype of such as Nehru, Nasser, a

Martin Wight was one of the most profound thinkers on international relations of his generation. This volume brings together his previously unpublished material on the political thinking of the four great international thinkers - Machiavelli Grotius, Kant and Mazzini.