ROBERT JACKSON is Professor of Political Science at Boston University, USA. He is the Author/Editor of nine books including The Global Covenant: Human Conduct in a World of States (Oxford, 2003), Quasi-States: Sovereignty, International Relations and the Third World (Cambridge, 1991), and Co-author of Introduction to International Relations (Oxford, 2003).

'This is... an important book: a robust defence, by an influential thinker, of an approach to the study of international relations that goes beyond the immediate and the instrumental'. - Ian Hall, International Affairs

• Discourses of International Thought PART I: REALISM AND BEYOND Conversing with Thrasymachus: Voices of Realism Martin Wight, International Theory, and the Good Life Martin Wight's Theology of Diplomacy Beyond Hobbes But Not So Far as Kant: Ethics of Security PART II: PLURALISM, SOLIDARISM, JUSTICE Faces of Sovereignty What We Owe to Foreigners: International Obligation Jurisprudence for a Solidarist World: Richard Falk's "Grotian Movement" Dialectical Justice in World Affairs Lifting the Veil of Ignorance: John Rawls' "Law of Peoples"