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 emphasises 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. -- .
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Manchester University Press
ISBN-13
9781526116444
eBay Product ID (ePID)
25046335240
Product Key Features
Subject Area
Country
Author
Evgeny Roshchin
Publication Name
Friendship Among Nations: History of a Concept
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
History
Publication Year
2017
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
264 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
234mm
Item Width
156mm
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Evgeny Roshchin
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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