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1. Rengger’s anti-Pelagianism: international political theory as civil conversation – Vassilios Paipais
Part 1: Anti-Pelagianism and the Civil Condition in World Politics
2. Revisiting Rengger’s Anti-Pelagianism – Noel O’Sullivan and Sophia Dingli
3. Poetics and Politics: Rengger, Weber, and the Virtuosi of Religion – John-Harmen Valk
4. ‘Keep your mind in hell, and despair not’: Gillian Rose’s anti-Pelagianism – Kate Schick
Part 2: Challenging the Anti-Pelagian Imagination
5. ‘A Dangerous Place to Be’? Nicholas J. Rengger, the English School, and International Disorder – Ian Hall
6. Rengger’s War on Teleocracy – Chris Brown
7. Conservatism, Civility, and the Challenges of International Political Theory – Michael Williams
Part 3: The Uncivil Condition in Word Politics
8. Rengger the Reluctant Rule Follower – Anthony Lang Jr.
9. Rengger and the ‘Business of War’ – Caroline Kennedy-Pipe
10. Just War as Tradition in a Civil International Order – Valerie Morkevičius
Afterword
11. Rengger, History, and the Future of International Relations – Richard Whatmore

Vassilios Paipais is Lecturer in International Relations at the University of St Andrews.

Highlights and reaffirms the pertinence of political philosophy and intellectual history for rethinking the problem of a pluralist world order;
Builds on the work of international political theorist Nicholas Rengger;
Offers a sceptical, non-utopian approach to theorising world order.

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