Hegel's theory of international politics

A reply to Jaeger

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ID11651920
AuthorsTilford Brooks (0000-0002-9145-837X, corresponding author), Thom Brooks
Year2003
Volume30
Issue1
Pages149-152
Publication date2003-12-02
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueReview of International Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0260-2105 • E-ISSN: 1469-9044
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s026021050400587x
OpenAlexW2107703024
LanguageEN
Citations received5

Hans-Martin Jaeger argues in this Journal that Hegel endorses a ‘reluctant realism’, whereby Hegel's theory of international politics institutionalises a transnationalising civil society of states. In Jaeger's view, Hegel's conception of individuals in civil society is analogous to states in international politics. On the contrary, I argue Hegel's conception of abstract right is far more commensurable with his theory of international politics. The mutual recognition existing in civil society – which helps to produce legal relationships – does not exist beyond the state where there are no legal relationships. Thus, Hegel is a realist of a more familiar sort, without any ‘reluctance’

Civil society · Epistemology · Hegelianism · International relations · Law and economics · Political philosophy · Political science · Politics · Realism · Sociology · State (computer science · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · Law · Mathematics · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought

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