Jon D. Carlson is a lecturer in social sciences, humanities, and arts at the University of California, Merced. His recent works include Myths, State Expansion and the Birth of Globalization and a co-edited volume Maritime Piracy and the Construction of Global Governance.Russell Arben Fox is professor of political science and director of the Political Science Program at Friends University.

In this collection there are some fine individual essays which have important lessons for comparative political thought . . . so too does the volume as a whole.

• Introduction: Comparative States of Nature Russell Arben FoxPart One: The State of Nature and Applications in Chinese ThoughtChapter 1. Self-Transformation and Civil Society: Lockean vs. ConfucianSungmoon Kim, City University of Hong KongChapter 2. Han Feizi’s Philosophical Psychology: Human Nature, Scarcity, and the NeoDarwinian ConsensusOwen Flanagan and Jing Hu, Duke UniversityChapter 3. The Confucian Tradition, Nature, and Civil EducationRussell Arben Fox, Friends University Chapter 4. States of Nature: Counter-Confucianism and the Daoist Encounter with LiberalismEric Goodfield, American University, Beirut Chapter 5. Mozi, Hobbes, Locke and the State of Nature Al Martinich and Siwing Tsoi, University of Texas Chapter 6. Chinese Sage Kings and the Hobbesian State of Nature: Bridging Comparative Political Thought and International Relations TheoryJon D. Carlson, University of California, MercedPart Two: The State of Nature in Islam, India and BeyondChapter 7. States of Nature and Islands of Politics: Animality, Death, ColonialismMurad Idris, Penn University, Cornell UniversityChapter 8. Ibn Khaldoun: Writing from the Margin—‘The State of Nature’—To Remain There.Magid Shihade, Birzeit University Chapter 9. The State of Nature and Domesticated Differences in Ancient Indian Political Thought: A Historical-Comparative Approach Stuart Gray, University of California, Santa Barbara, Johns Hopkins University Chapter 10. On Matsyanyaya: The State of Nature in Indian Thought (from Asian Philosophy)David Slakter, University of Central Oklahoma Chapter 11. I'd Rather Just Devolve, Thank You: Enkidu, Gilgamesh, and an Ambiguous State of NatureStefan Dolgert, Brock University Chapter 12. The Problem of the State of Nature in Medieval Jewish Political PhilosophyAbraham Melamed, University of HaifaChapter 13. The Nature of the State without the State of Nature: Micronesia and PolynesiaMichael Stoil, University of Guam Conclusion. States of Nature: Consilience, Syncretism, and Challenges for Comparative Political ThoughtJon D. Carlson, University of California, Merced

Jon D. Carlson is a lecturer in social sciences, humanities, and arts at the University of California, Merced. His recent works include Myths, State Expansion and the Birth of Globalization and a co-edited volume Maritime Piracy and the Construction of Global Governance.Russell Arben Fox is professor of political science and director of the Political Science Program at Friends University.

In this collection there are some fine individual essays which have important lessons for comparative political thought . . . so too does the volume as a whole.

• Introduction: Comparative States of Nature Russell Arben FoxPart One: The State of Nature and Applications in Chinese ThoughtChapter 1. Self-Transformation and Civil Society: Lockean vs. ConfucianSungmoon Kim, City University of Hong KongChapter 2. Han Feizi’s Philosophical Psychology: Human Nature, Scarcity, and the NeoDarwinian ConsensusOwen Flanagan and Jing Hu, Duke UniversityChapter 3. The Confucian Tradition, Nature, and Civil EducationRussell Arben Fox, Friends University Chapter 4. States of Nature: Counter-Confucianism and the Daoist Encounter with LiberalismEric Goodfield, American University, Beirut Chapter 5. Mozi, Hobbes, Locke and the State of Nature Al Martinich and Siwing Tsoi, University of Texas Chapter 6. Chinese Sage Kings and the Hobbesian State of Nature: Bridging Comparative Political Thought and International Relations TheoryJon D. Carlson, University of California, MercedPart Two: The State of Nature in Islam, India and BeyondChapter 7. States of Nature and Islands of Politics: Animality, Death, ColonialismMurad Idris, Penn University, Cornell UniversityChapter 8. Ibn Khaldoun: Writing from the Margin—‘The State of Nature’—To Remain There.Magid Shihade, Birzeit University Chapter 9. The State of Nature and Domesticated Differences in Ancient Indian Political Thought: A Historical-Comparative Approach Stuart Gray, University of California, Santa Barbara, Johns Hopkins University Chapter 10. On Matsyanyaya: The State of Nature in Indian Thought (from Asian Philosophy)David Slakter, University of Central Oklahoma Chapter 11. I'd Rather Just Devolve, Thank You: Enkidu, Gilgamesh, and an Ambiguous State of NatureStefan Dolgert, Brock University Chapter 12. The Problem of the State of Nature in Medieval Jewish Political PhilosophyAbraham Melamed, University of HaifaChapter 13. The Nature of the State without the State of Nature: Micronesia and PolynesiaMichael Stoil, University of Guam Conclusion. States of Nature: Consilience, Syncretism, and Challenges for Comparative Political ThoughtJon D. Carlson, University of California, Merced

Jon D. Carlson is a lecturer in social sciences, humanities, and arts at the University of California, Merced. His recent works include Myths, State Expansion and the Birth of Globalization and a co-edited volume Maritime Piracy and the Construction of Global Governance.Russell Arben Fox is professor of political science and director of the Political Science Program at Friends University.

In this collection there are some fine individual essays which have important lessons for comparative political thought . . . so too does the volume as a whole.

• Introduction: Comparative States of Nature Russell Arben FoxPart One: The State of Nature and Applications in Chinese ThoughtChapter 1. Self-Transformation and Civil Society: Lockean vs. ConfucianSungmoon Kim, City University of Hong KongChapter 2. Han Feizi’s Philosophical Psychology: Human Nature, Scarcity, and the NeoDarwinian ConsensusOwen Flanagan and Jing Hu, Duke UniversityChapter 3. The Confucian Tradition, Nature, and Civil EducationRussell Arben Fox, Friends University Chapter 4. States of Nature: Counter-Confucianism and the Daoist Encounter with LiberalismEric Goodfield, American University, Beirut Chapter 5. Mozi, Hobbes, Locke and the State of Nature Al Martinich and Siwing Tsoi, University of Texas Chapter 6. Chinese Sage Kings and the Hobbesian State of Nature: Bridging Comparative Political Thought and International Relations TheoryJon D. Carlson, University of California, MercedPart Two: The State of Nature in Islam, India and BeyondChapter 7. States of Nature and Islands of Politics: Animality, Death, ColonialismMurad Idris, Penn University, Cornell UniversityChapter 8. Ibn Khaldoun: Writing from the Margin—‘The State of Nature’—To Remain There.Magid Shihade, Birzeit University Chapter 9. The State of Nature and Domesticated Differences in Ancient Indian Political Thought: A Historical-Comparative Approach Stuart Gray, University of California, Santa Barbara, Johns Hopkins University Chapter 10. On Matsyanyaya: The State of Nature in Indian Thought (from Asian Philosophy)David Slakter, University of Central Oklahoma Chapter 11. I'd Rather Just Devolve, Thank You: Enkidu, Gilgamesh, and an Ambiguous State of NatureStefan Dolgert, Brock University Chapter 12. The Problem of the State of Nature in Medieval Jewish Political PhilosophyAbraham Melamed, University of HaifaChapter 13. The Nature of the State without the State of Nature: Micronesia and PolynesiaMichael Stoil, University of Guam Conclusion. States of Nature: Consilience, Syncretism, and Challenges for Comparative Political ThoughtJon D. Carlson, University of California, Merced