1. Introduction: Mill and international politics; 2. International law and international morality; 3. Inter-state treaties and international morality; 4. Redefining non-intervention; 5. A few words on Mill on empire; 6. War and peace; Conclusion.
A comprehensive analysis of the international political pronouncements of John Stuart Mill: the pre-eminent thinker of the liberal tradition.
Georgios Varouxakis is Reader in the History of Political Thought in the School of History at Queen Mary, University of London. He is the author of Mill on Nationality (2002) and Victorian Political Thought on France and the French (2002) and the co-editor of Utilitarianism and Empire (2005) and John Stuart Mill: Thought and Influence - The Saint of Rationalism (2010).
'Varouxakis's book is now the best place to go for a sustained
treatment of the relationship between Mill's idea of liberty and
international relations broadly construed, and puts another nail in
the coffin of unhistorical treatments of Mill by international
relations theorists.' Duncan Kelly, Political Quarterly
'[An] excellent study of how Mill reacted to the foreign policy
crises of mid-Victorian Britain.' Standpoint
'Liberty Abroad does what a truly successful scholarly work ought
to: it shows us a Mill that we simply didn't know before … an
excellent, meticulous, timely and important book. Liberty Abroad
is, without a doubt, the authoritative account of Mill's
international thought, and as such, is a very welcome addition to
the scholarship on him.' Inder S. Marwah, Utilitas
'One striking aspect of this book is how many of the issues raised
by Mill still remain significant today. For example, Mill wrote
some particularly interesting comments on international law, a term
still now used rather imprecisely and often according to political
convenience.' Michael Levin, The European Legacy: Toward New
Paradigms
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