Enduring Empire: Ancient Lessons for Global Politics / Edition 1

by David Tabachnick, Toivo Koivukoski

Overview

An exploration of the ways in which ancient theories of empire can inform our understanding of present-day international relations, Enduring Empire engages in a serious discussion of empire as it relates to American foreign policy and global politics.

The imperial power dynamics of ancient Athens and Rome provided fertile ground for the deliberations of many classical thinkers who wrote on the nature of empire: contemplating political sovereignty, autonomy, and citizenship as well as war, peace, and civilization in a world where political boundaries were strained and contested. The contributors to this collection prompt similar questions with their essays and promote a serious contemporary consideration of empire in light of the predominance of the United States and of the doctrine of liberal democracy.

Featuring essays from some of the leading thinkers in the fields of political science, philosophy, history, and classics, Enduring Empire illustrates how lessons gleaned from the Athenian and Roman empires can help us to understand the imperial trajectory of global politics today.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780802095213
Publisher:	University of Toronto Press
Publication date:	09/05/2009
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

David Edward Tabachnick is a professor in the Department of Political Science, Philosophy and Economics at Nipissing University.
Toivo Koivukoski is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at Nipissing University.

Table of Contents

Preface David Edward Tabachnick and Toivo Koivukoski

In the Mirror of Antiquity: The Problem of American Empire David C. Hendrickson

Democracy and Empire: The Case of Athens Laurie M. Johnson Bagby

Empire by Invitation of Domination? The Difference between Hemonia and Arkhe / David Edward Tabachnick

The Freedom to Rule: Athenian Imperialism and Democratic Masculinity Ryan K. Balot

Liberty and Empire, with the Benefit of Limited Hindsight - or What Herodotus of Halicarnassus Saw Clifford Orwin

Empire and the Eclipse of Politics Leah Bradshaw

Imperial Compulsions Toivo Koivukoski

Rome and the Hellenistic World: Masculinity and Militarism, Monarchy and Republic Arthur M. Eckstein

Imperial Power in the Roman Republic Susan Mattern-Parkes

The Rise of Global Power and the Music of the Spheres: Philosophy and History in Cicero's De Re Publica Geoffrey Kellow

Machiavelli's Model of a Liberal Empire: The Evolution of Rome Waller R. Newell

Post-9/11 Evocations of Empire in Light of Eric Voegelin's Political Science John von Heyking

Athens as Hamlet: The Irresolute Empire Barry Strauss

Editorial Reviews

By reaching back to the imperial histories of ancient Greece and ancient Rome, this fascinating collection explores the passages that global powers traverse as they rise and fall.—G. John Ikenberry, Foreign Affairs

From the Publisher

By reaching back to the imperial histories of ancient Greece and ancient Rome, this fascinating collection explores the passages that global powers traverse as they rise and fall.

G. John Ikenberry