Friendship Among Nations

Evgeny Roshchin is Dean of the Department of Comparative Political Studies, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA), St Petersburg

‘This investigation is more thorough and far more original than anything else ever written about friendship in diplomacy or, for that matter, in public life.'Nick Onuf, Professor Emeritus of International Relations at Florida International University'This book reconstructs the fascinating history of a neglected concept, and should be read by anyone interested in the history of international thought.'Jens Bartelson, Professor of Political Science at Lund University'A richly detailed, closely argued history of the concept from antiquity to the emergence of the modern era. Roshchin makes a convincing case that a genealogy of this alternative conception of friendship is germane to contemporary debates among International Relations scholars and intellectual historians alike.'Martin J. Burke, The City University of New York and Executive Co-editor of The Journal of the History of Ideas

• Introduction1 The ambivalence of ancient friendship2 Early modern friendship – politics and law 3 The ethics of friendship in early European diplomacy4 Turning friendship into a moral prescription: conceptual change in modernity5 The unknown friendship of modern international ordersConclusionBibliographyIndex