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Males and electorate within the thought of diplomacy offers with the stress among the tasks of citizenship and the responsibilities of humanity in sleek theories of the kingdom and diplomacy. It comprises an ancient evaluation of ways during which the connection among citizenship and humanity has been conceived in political thought because the 17th century. Drawing upon the German proposal of freedom constructed within the writings of Kant, Hegel and Marx, males and electorate argues for the primacy of duties to the human race. A postscript to this new version offers a remark at the writings of Habermas and Foucault. the road of argument constructed within the first version is reconsidered within the mild of the present debate among serious theorists and anti-foundationalists. The case for a severe sociology of ethical obstacles in diplomacy is gifted within the ultimate sections of the e-book.

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The division between men and citizens becomes the basis of a radical theory of international relations, a critical rather than mechanistic theory which is desirous of overcoming those particularistic associations which inhibit the growth of more free and universal relations. We shall claim that this theory not only overcomes the limitations of our more familiar international relations theories, but fulfils the aspirations present within those theories which regarded the division between men and citizens as a barrier to the enjoyment of an integrated political community.

Hellenism itself, prior to the emergence of Stoicism, came to be conceived as 'a thing of the spirit and not dependent on the race to which a man belonged or the place he was born'. socrates writes in his P anegyricus: And so far has our city distanced the rest of the world in thought and in speech that her pupils have become the teachers of the rest of the world; and she has brought it about that the cause 'Hellenes' suggests no longer a race but an intelligence, and that the title 'Hellenes' is applied rather 22 Men and Citizens in International Relations to those who share our culture than to those who share a common blood.

Clearly the tension that exists between men and citizens has troubled them. How is that community to be recovered within a domestic framework whose equilibrium may be disturbed at any time by the appeal of universalism? Christianity with its vision of a community more fundamental and embracing than the state posed an inevitable problem. Recognition of the opposition between religious individualism and universalism and the performance of civic obligations troubled Rousseau for whom the tension must be dissolved in a civic religion 'without which a man cannot be a good citizen or a faithful subject'.

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