| Friendship Among Nations: History of a Concept Contributor(s): Roshchin, Evgeny (Author) |
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ISBN: 1526116448 ISBN-13: 9781526116444 Publisher: Manchester University Press OUR PRICE: $123.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | International Relations - Diplomacy - Psychology | Interpersonal Relations - Social Science | Sociology - General |
| Physical Information: 0.63" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.21 lbs) 264 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This is the first book-length study of the role that friendship plays in diplomacy and international politics. Through an examination of a vast amount of sources ranging from diplomatic letters and bilateral treaties, to poems and philosophical treatises, it analyses how friendship has been talked about and practised in pre-modern political orders and modern systems of international relations. The study highlights how instrumental friendship was for describing and legitimising a range of political and legal engagements with foreign countries and nations. It shows how instrumental friendship was for describing and legitimizing a range of political and legal engagements with foreign countries and nations. It emphasizes contractual and political aspects in diplomatic friendship based on the idea of utility. It is these functions of the concept that help the world stick together when collective institutions are either embryonic or no more. |
