Murad Idris is an Assistant Professor of Politics, University of Virginia; co-editor of forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Comparative Political Theory

Idris mounts a powerful case through meticulous and imaginative readings of a series of 10 key thinkers. ... he manages to narrate the history of a concept with considerable coherence over a long period and a diverse array of authors. The resulting balance between particularity and reverberation is one of the book's great pleasures and strengths.

• AcknowledgementsPreface: Troubling PeaceIntroduction: Beyond Universal PeaceChapter 1. Assigning Symmetry: Plato's Laws and the Polis's WarsChapter 2. Summoning Hostility: Al-Farabi, Aquinas, and Warlike PeaceInterlude I-Deflections: Friends, Neighbors, AdvisersChapter 3. Loving Necessity: Erasmus between Christianity and IslamChapter 4. Ordering Legality: Gentili, Grotius, and Law for WarInterlude II-Refractions: Missionaries, Nomads, PiratesChapter 5. Colonizing Frontiers: Ibn Khaldun, Hobbes, and Commodious ViolenceChapter 6. Policing Humanity: Immanuel Kant, Sayyid Qutb, and Shades of EmpireEpilogue: Unmaking Peace

Murad Idris is an Assistant Professor of Politics, University of Virginia; co-editor of forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Comparative Political Theory

Idris mounts a powerful case through meticulous and imaginative readings of a series of 10 key thinkers. ... he manages to narrate the history of a concept with considerable coherence over a long period and a diverse array of authors. The resulting balance between particularity and reverberation is one of the book's great pleasures and strengths.

• AcknowledgementsPreface: Troubling PeaceIntroduction: Beyond Universal PeaceChapter 1. Assigning Symmetry: Plato's Laws and the Polis's WarsChapter 2. Summoning Hostility: Al-Farabi, Aquinas, and Warlike PeaceInterlude I-Deflections: Friends, Neighbors, AdvisersChapter 3. Loving Necessity: Erasmus between Christianity and IslamChapter 4. Ordering Legality: Gentili, Grotius, and Law for WarInterlude II-Refractions: Missionaries, Nomads, PiratesChapter 5. Colonizing Frontiers: Ibn Khaldun, Hobbes, and Commodious ViolenceChapter 6. Policing Humanity: Immanuel Kant, Sayyid Qutb, and Shades of EmpireEpilogue: Unmaking Peace

Murad Idris is an Assistant Professor of Politics, University of Virginia; co-editor of forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Comparative Political Theory

Idris mounts a powerful case through meticulous and imaginative readings of a series of 10 key thinkers. ... he manages to narrate the history of a concept with considerable coherence over a long period and a diverse array of authors. The resulting balance between particularity and reverberation is one of the book's great pleasures and strengths.

• AcknowledgementsPreface: Troubling PeaceIntroduction: Beyond Universal PeaceChapter 1. Assigning Symmetry: Plato's Laws and the Polis's WarsChapter 2. Summoning Hostility: Al-Farabi, Aquinas, and Warlike PeaceInterlude I-Deflections: Friends, Neighbors, AdvisersChapter 3. Loving Necessity: Erasmus between Christianity and IslamChapter 4. Ordering Legality: Gentili, Grotius, and Law for WarInterlude II-Refractions: Missionaries, Nomads, PiratesChapter 5. Colonizing Frontiers: Ibn Khaldun, Hobbes, and Commodious ViolenceChapter 6. Policing Humanity: Immanuel Kant, Sayyid Qutb, and Shades of EmpireEpilogue: Unmaking Peace