Martin Wight was perhaps the most profound thinker in international relations of his generation. In a discipline for too long mesmerized by the pseudo-science of the historically and philosophically illiterate, his work stands out like a beacon. Yet it is only in the decades since his death that his achievement has attained its true recognition. Of the first volume of posthumously published lectures-- International Theory: The Three Traditions (1991)--one reviewer wrote: '[it] stands as a classic in the genre of printed lectures stretching from Aristotle to Ruskin... It is exhilarating... for there is nothing quite like it and-- which is a measure of Martin Wight's stature--there is not likely to be'. That volume is here complemented and completed. In these four lectures Wight takes the archetypal thinkers of this three traditions--Machiavelli, Grotius, and Kant--to whom he adds Mazzini, the father of all revolutionary nationalism, and so the prototype of such as Nehru, Nasser, and Mandela, and subjects their writings and careers to a masterly analysis and commentary. The volume also contains an important new introduction to Wight's thought by Professor David S. Yost.

马丁-怀特可能是他那一代人中在国际关系方面最深刻的思想家。在一门长期被历史和哲学文盲的伪科学所迷惑的学科中，他的工作就像一盏明灯一样突出。然而，只有在他去世后的几十年里，他的成就才得到了真正的认可。在他死后出版的第一卷演讲稿中--国际理论。一位评论家写道："[它]作为从亚里士多德到罗斯金的印刷讲座流派中的经典之作......。它令人振奋......因为没有任何东西能与之媲美，而且--这也是衡量马丁-怀特地位的一个标准--不可能再有。这卷书在这里得到了补充和完善。在这四场讲座中，怀特选取了这三个传统的典型思想家--马基雅维利、格劳秀斯和康德--他还在其中加入了马志尼，所有革命民族主义之父，因此也是尼赫鲁、纳赛尔和曼德拉等人的原型，并对他们的著作和职业生涯进行了精湛的分析和评论。本卷还包括大卫-S-约斯特教授对怀特思想的重要新介绍。