Medieval foundations of international relations

1. The medieval contribution to modern international relations / William Bain -- 2. The medieval and the international : a strange case of mutual neglect / Nicholas Rengger -- 3. Metaphysics and the problem of international order / C.J.C. Pickstock -- 4. Secularism in question : Hugo Grotius's 'impious hypothesis' again / Francis Oakley -- 5. Between false-universalism and radical-particularism : thoughts on Thomas Hobbes and international relations / Joshua Mitchell -- 6. The medieval Roman and canon law origins of international law / Joseph Canning -- 7. Then and now : the medieval conception of just war versus recent portrayals of the just war idea / James Turner Johnson -- 8. Humanitarian intervention in a world of sovereign states : the Grotian dilemma / James Muldoon -- 9. The medieval and early modern legacy of rights : the rights to punish and to property / Camilla Boisen and David Boucher -- 10. International relations and the 'modern' Middle Ages : rival theological theorisations of international order / Adrian Pabst.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgement -- 1. The medieval contribution to modern international relations -- Foundations and perspectives -- Medieval pasts, medieval futures -- Modern distortion, medieval exclusion -- De-mythologising the medieval -- Notes -- 2. The medieval and the international: A strange case of mutual neglect -- The medieval in the international? -- Legitimacy and authority? -- The international in the medieval? -- Conclusion -- Notes