This is the first full-length presentation of a republican alternative to the liberal and communitarian theories that have dominated political philosophy in rec

The book provides a thematic examination of republican theory from the Italian Renaissance, through seventeenth- and early-eighteenth-century England, the late-

A novel, republican theory of the point of democracy, providing a model of the institutions that republican democracy would require.

Explores how republican political thought can make a constructive and distinctive contribution to our understanding of democracy and the challenges it faces.

Realism, the dominant theory of international relations, particularly regarding security, seems compelling in part because of its claim to embody so much of Wes