Thucydides and Political Order

Thucydides and Political Order

Thucydides and Political Order Concepts of Order and the History of the Peloponnesian War Edited by Christian R. Thauer and Christian Wendt

THUCYDIDES AND POLITICAL ORDER Selection and editorial content Christian R. Thauer and Christian Wendt 2016 Individual chapters their respective contributors 2016 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2016 978-1-137-52762-2 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No portion of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission. In accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, Saffron House, 6-10 Kirby Street, London EC1N 8TS. Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. First published 2016 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN The authors have asserted their rights to be identified as the authors of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. Palgrave Macmillan in the UK is an imprint of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan in the US is a division of Nature America, Inc., One New York Plaza, Suite 4500, New York, NY 10004-1562. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. ISBN: 978 1 349 57901 3 E-PDF ISBN: 978 1 137 52763 9 DOI: 10.1057/9781137527639 Distribution in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world is by Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Thauer, Christian, 1976 Wendt, Christian, 1976 Title: Thucydides and political order. Concepts of order and the History of the Peloponnesian War / [edited by] Christian R. Thauer and Christian Wendt. Other titles: Concepts of order and the History of the Peloponnesian War Description: New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2015021287 Subjects: LCSH: Thucydides Political and social views. Thucydides. History of the Peloponnesian War. Greece History Peloponnesian War, 431 404 B.C. Historiography. Greece--Politics and government To 146 B.C. Historiography. Athens (Greece) Politics and government Historiography. Order Political aspects Greece History To 1500. Political science Greece History To 1500. BISAC: HISTORY / Historiography. HISTORY / Europe / Greece (see also Ancient / Greece). POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory. Classification: LCC DF229.T6 T525 2015 DDC 938/.05072 dc23 LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015021287 A catalogue record for the book is available from the British Library.

Contents P r e fa ce vii Pa r t I I nt r o duc t ion 1 Thucydides and Political Order 3 Christian R. Thauer and Christian Wendt Part II Thucydides and the Modern Reader: Methodological Reflections from Different Perspectives 2 Contextualism and Universalism in Thucydidean Thought 23 Ne v il l e Mo r l e y 3 It s Time for History! Thucydides in International Relations: Toward a Post- Westphalian Reading of a Pre- Westphalian A ut hor 41 C h r i s t i a n R. T h a u e r 4 arch ē in Herodotus and Thucydides 59 Peter Spahn 5 Turannis in the Work of Thucydides 87 Ma r t in D r e h e r Part III Representations of Order in Thucydides 6 Beneath Politics: Thucydides on the Body as the Ground and Limit of the Political Regime 113 Clifford Orwin 7 The Rule of the Sea : Thucydidean Concept or Periclean Utopia? 129 Ha n s K opp

vi Contents 8 Civic Trust in Thucydides s History 151 R y a n B a l ot Bibliography 175 List of Contributors 191 In d e x 193 Index Locorum 197

Preface T his book is the result of a long-term interdisciplinary collaboration between Christian Wendt, a classicist, and Christian Thauer, a political scientist, which began several years ago at the Freie Universit ä t Berlin. When Christian Thauer graduated in 2004 from the Freie Universit ä t Berlin with a paper on Thucydides in International Relations, his supervisors were Thomas Risse in the Department of Political Science and Ernst Baltrusch from the History Department. Inspired by Baltrusch s work on ancient Greek international order, Christian s exam paper suggested a reading of Thucydides for International Relations that takes into account the ancient Greek polis-world. It was at that time that Christian Wendt then a PhD student of Ernst Baltrusch met Christian Thauer. Wendt was also working on Thucydides in relation to international order, looking at Thucydides as an early work of international law. Both Christians soon decided that, in addition to their own disciplinary work, they should collaborate, convinced that a joint interdisciplinary approach would offer them a new way of looking at Thucydides. In 2005, they organized a small colloquium at the Freie Universit ä t concerned with Thucydides and antique international relations, involving both political scientists and historians. In 2011, thanks to funding from Topoi, in the context of the German Excellency Initiative, they organized a larger, international and interdisciplinary workshop on Thucydides in history and political science today. This brought together historians and political scientists of different backgrounds in a conference, titled Between Anarchy and Order: Herrschaftskonzeptionen bei Thukydides in April 2012 in Berlin. This conference allowed Wendt and Thauer, in close cooperation with Thucydides-scholars from around the world, to further develop their idea of an international order-based approach to Thucydides.

viii Preface The results of this conference are published in two closely interconnected volumes, this very book and a second one entitled Thucydides and Political Order: Lessons of Governance and the History of the Peloponnesian War, also published in 2016 with Palgrave Macmillan, to which we refer here as LoG. On the one hand, they showcase different disciplinary and national-academic traditions, interests, and approaches in relation to Thucydides and styles of academic writing and debate. On the other hand, their compilation in these volumes is, as a whole, greater than the sum of their parts in that they all highlight different aspects of a key issue in relation to Thucydides. This key issue concerns the question of international order. The two volumes consist of an interdisciplinary dialogue on Thucydides on the basis of this issue. They thus suggest their own original approach to the ancient author, while at the same time showcasing the various states of the arts in the different academic communities interested in him. We express our gratitude to a number of persons and institutions for their support, intellectual input, inspiration, funding, and encouragement in the process: The Excellence Cluster Topoi funded the workshop and gave us the support we needed in organizing the publication of these two volumes; intellectually, Ernst Baltrusch and his work informed and inspired us and made our collaboration possible; Andreas Corcoran and Marly Schaule for their translations of the German contributions to English, as well as Aideen Carty, Ben Earley, Noa Swisa, and Seth Jaffe for their assistance in reading and editing. We thank the contributors to our workshop and to these two volumes for their collaboration and time spent with us, and their patience and tolerance in the process (which are essential success factors in interdisciplinary work)! We hope to continue our conversations about the History of the Peloponnesian War in the near future! Jerusalem and Berlin, June 2015 Christian R. Thauer Senior Lecturer Department of International Relations DAAD Center for German Studies The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Christian Wendt Professor of Ancient History Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut Freie Universit ä t Berlin