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Part II of this book examined the multiple conceptions and models of Hobbes’s state of nature, articulated in The Elements, De Cive, and Leviathan. Part III is devoted to Hobbes’s theory of international relations. This chapter takes up the problem of an international state of nature, or international anarchy. It will develop and assess three alternative positions that can be said to follow from Hobbes’s domestic theory of the state—a world state model, a pure anarchy (or realist) model, and a third perspective, called normativism, which projects an image of a normatively modulated international anarchy.
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Lechner, S. (2019). Hobbes and the International Anarchy. In: Hobbesian Internationalism. International Political Theory. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30693-9_6
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