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Hegel's reluctant realism and the transnationalisation of civil society

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 July 2002

Hans-Martin Jaeger
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Qualifying a realist interpretation, this essay argues that the dialectical involvement of the state as an individual with its external relations exposes international politics as a matter of both anarchy and war, and mutual recognition and practical morality among states in Hegel's theory of international relations. With the absolute distinction between internal community and external anarchy removed, Hegel's account of civil society becomes relevant to his theory of international relations. Both as an analogy and concretely, it provides indications for a partial transcendence of sovereign statehood and international anarchy by institutionalised co-operation and political (self-)regulation in a transnationalising civil society.

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Review of International Studies , Volume 28 , Issue 3 , July 2002 , pp. 497 - 517
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© 2002 British International Studies Association

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