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INTRODUCTION. Philosophical ideals of polis, imperium, cosmopolis.
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Objective geography. On the geography of the fertile crescent. Garth Fowden, part of ch. 1 of Empire to Commonwealth: Consequences of Monotheism in Late Antiquity (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993), pp. 12-19. Miscellaneous maps and an account of Eratosthenes’s calculation of the size of the earth. Transition: languages. Nicholas Ostler, sect. on Turkish etc in Empires of the Word (Harper Collins, 2005), pp. 105-112.
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Subjective geography. On Roman and Greek geography. Claude Nicolet, ch. 3 of Geography and Politics in Early Roman Empire (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1991), pp. 57-84. Carl Schmitt, The Nomos of the Earth trans. G.L.Ulmen (New York: Telos Press, 2003), pp. 42-55, 86-100. Historical consciousness. G.W.F. Hegel, ‘The Natural Context of the Geographical Basis of World History’, Lectures on the Philosophy of World History: Introduction trans. H.B. Nisbet (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1975), pp. 152-196.
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From polis to what? Hans Kelsen, ‘The Philosophy of Aristotle and the Hellenic-Macedonian Policy’, The International Journal of Ethics 48 (1937), p. 1-64. Peter Green, ‘The Metamorphosis of the Barbarian: Athenian Panhellenism in a Changing World’ in Transitions to Empire: Essays in Greco-Roman History 360-146 BC eds. Wallace and Harris (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1996), pp. 5-36.
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Cosmopolis: Cynics and Stoics. Excerpts from texts on Alexander, Zeno etc in Ernest Barker, From Alexander to Constantine (Oxford: Clarendon, 1956), pp. 1-19, 22-23, 40-43. ‘Diogenes Cosmopolitanism’, Appendix H from Malcolm Schofield, The Stoic Idea of the City (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991), pp. 141-45. Malcolm Schofield, ‘Social and Political Thought’ in The Cambridge History of Hellenistic Philosophy ed. Schofield, Burnyeat, Barnes (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989), pp. 739-70.
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Imperium: Roman Republic and imperium. Richard Koebner, ch 1 from Imperium (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1961), pp. 1-17. Ernest Barker, ‘The Conception of Empire’ in The Legacy of Rome ed. Cyril Bailey (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1951), pp. 45-89. Imperium: Roman Empire. Augustus, Res Gestae.
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Imperium/Cosmopolis: The Israelite tradition. Various texts (Daniel, the Gospel of John, Pauls’ Letter to the Romans) Christianity. Reinhold Niebuhr, ‘Augustine’s Political Realism’, The Essential Reinhold Niebuhr: Selected Essays and Addresses ed. R.M. Brown (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1976), pp. 123-41. Byzantium, Islam, Russia etc.
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Imperium: Holy Roman Empire. Walter Ullmann, ‘Reflections on the Medieval Empire’, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society 14 (1964), pp. 89-108. States and Overseas Empires. G.V. Scammell, ‘The New Worlds and Europe in the Sixteenth Century’ Historical Journal 12 (1969), pp. 389-412. *** jstor ***
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Imperium: The shift in the meaning of ‘empire’. Richard Koebner, ‘From Imperium to Empire’, in Imperium, pp. 18-60 Robert Lowe, ‘Imperialism’, The Fortnightly Review 24 (1878), pp. 453-65.
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Cosmopolis: Enlightenment and Kant. Immanuel Kant, ‘Perpectual Peace (1795) in Philosophical Writings ed. Behler (1986), pp. 270-311. Modernity. Carl Schmitt, ‘The New Nomos of the Earth’ in The Nomos of the Earth, pp. 351-55. Danilo Zolo, ‘Hans Kelsen: International Peace through International Law’.
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Imperium: Modern Imperialism. Richard Koebner, ‘The Concept of Economic Imperialism’, The Economic History Review 2nd ser. 2 (1949), pp. 1-29 *** jstor **** Chapters from Koebner and Schmidt, Imperialism, pp. 250-300.
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Lenin, ‘Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism (Moscow, 1934), pp. 73-83. Niall Ferguson, ‘The Limits of American Empire’ in Colossus: The Rise and Fall of American Empire (London: penguin, 2004), pp. 34-104. Samuel Huntington, Who are we? (2004), pp. 366-70.
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Cosmopolis: Modern Cosmopolitanism. ‘Cosmopolitanism’ in International Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences. David Held, ‘Principles of Cosmopolitan Order’ in The Political Philosophy of Cosmopolitanism (2005).
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Jeremy Waldron, ‘What is Cosmopolitan?’ The Journal of Political Philosophy 8 (2000), pp. 227-243.