Thucydides and Political Order

Part I. Introduction

1. Thucydides and Political Order
Christian R. Thauer, Christian Wendt

Part II. Thucydides and the Modern Reader: Methodological Reflections from Different Perspectives

2. Contextualism and Universalism in Thucydidean Thought
Neville Morley

3. It’s Time for History! Thucydides in International Relations: Toward a Post-”Westphalian” Reading of a Pre-“Westphalian” Author
Christian R. Thauer

4. archē in Herodotus and Thucydides
Peter Spahn

5. Turannis in the Work of Thucydides
Martin Dreher

Part III. Representations of Order in Thucydides

6. Beneath Politics: Thucydides on the Body as the Ground and Limit of the Political Regime
Clifford Orwin

7. The “Rule of the Sea”: Thucydidean Concept or Periclean Utopia?
Hans Kopp

8. Civic Trust in Thucydides’s History
Ryan Balot

Keywords: Political Science and International Relations, International Relations, Ancient History, European History, Historiography and Method, Political History, Classical Studies