Thucydides and Political Order

Part I. The Nature, Endurance, Destruction, and Consequences of Political Order According to Thucydides

1. “I Have Set Out First the Grievances and Disputes:” Greek International Law in Thucydides
Ernst Baltrusch

2. Thucydides and Order
Richard Ned Lebow

3. Democracy without an Alternative: Thucydides, Sparta, and Athens
Wolfgang Will

Part II. Thucydides as a Model Historian (or Theorist) of Political Order

4. Leo Strauss’s Thucydides and the Meaning of Politics
Liisi Keedus

5. The Power and Politics of Ontology
Christine Lee

6. The Fall of the Roman Republic: Sallust’s Reading of Thucydides
Klaus Meister

7. Thucydides as a “Statesmen’s Manual”?
Christian Wendt

Keywords: History, Ancient History, International Relations, Historiography and Method, Political History, European History, History of Ancient Europe