Before Anarchy

How did the ''Hobbesian state of nature'' and the ''discourse of anarchy'' - separated by three centuries - come to be seen as virtually synonymous? Before Anarchy offers a novel account of Hobbes''s interpersonal and international state of nature and rejects two dominant views. In one, international relations is a warlike Hobbesian anarchy, and in the other, state sovereignty eradicates the state...