Social Contract Theory and International Relations

Stephen Chadwick was awarded a British Academy funded PhD in social and political philosophy at the University of Aberdeen in 1998 under the supervision of Dr Nigel Dower. After a period teaching moral and political philosophy at Aberdeen, he gained an MA in Social Work from the University of Hull and subsequently worked in the field of drug prevention.  On relocating to New Zealand in 2004 he returned to academic philosophy at Massey University. His areas of research include political philosophy, gender ideology, and aesthetics.  He is the co-author of two books on astrophotography and aesthetics, both published by Springer, and has edited a collection of essays on applied ethics for Massey University Press.

• Introduction.- The Social Contract of Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau and Kant.- The State of Nature Analogy.- Justification for War.- Jus In Bello, Post-War Justice and Colonialism.- Preventing International Conflict: Saint-Pierre and Rousseau.- Terrorism.- Preventing International Conflict: Kant.- Global Inequality.