PART 1 APPROACHES TO THE STUDY OF POLITICAL THEORY 1. Ideology, Political Theory and Political Philosophy - Michael Freeden 2. History and the Interpretation of Texts - Terence Ball 3. Straussian Approaches to the Study of Politics - Thomas L. Pangle 4. Postmodern Approaches to Political Theory - Jane Bennett 5. Positive Political Theory - H. Donald Forbes PART II POLITICAL THEORIES 6. A Future for Marxism? - Andrew Levine 7. Liberalism, Political and Comprehensive - Jeremy Waldron 8. The Diversity of Comprehensive Liberalisms - Gerald F. Gaus 9. Classical Liberalism and Libertarianism: The Liberty Tradition - Eric Mack and Gerald F. Gaus 10. Conservative Theories - John Kekes 11. Democratic Political Theory - John S. Dryzek 12. Discourse Theory - James Bohman 13. Communitarianism and Replubicanism - Richard Dagger 14. Green Political Theory: A Report - John Barry and Andrew Dobson PART III THE MODERN STATE 15. The Modern State - Christopher W. Morris 16. The Political Theory of the Welfare State - J. Donald Moon 17. Distributive Justice - Julian Lamont 18. Pluralism and Liberalism - Fred D'Agostino 19. Nationalism and Multiculturalism - Chandran Kukathas 20. New Social Movements - David West 21. Feminism and Gender Theory: The Return of the State - Véronique Mottier 22. Political Theory and International Relations - Chris Brown PART IV THE HISTORY OF POLITICAL THOUGHT 23. Ancient Greek Political Thought - David Keyt and Fred D. Miller Jr 24. Premodern Chinese Political Thought - Helen Dunstan 25. Medieval Political Theory - John Kilcullen 26. Political Theory of the Renaissance and Enlightenment - Frederick G. Whelan 27. Modern Islamic Political Thought - Michaelle Browers 28. European Political Thought in the Nineteenth Century - Raymond Plant 29. Political Thought in Continental Europe during the Twentieth Century - Richard Bellamy, Jeremy Jennings and Peter Lassman 30. English Political Theory in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries - David Weinstein