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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    08 July 2026
    13 August 2026
    ISBN:
    9781009763998
    9781009764018
    9781009763981
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009763998
    Dimensions:
    (229 x 152 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.623kg, 316 Pages
    Dimensions:
    (229 x 152 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.46kg, 316 Pages
    • Subjects:
    Literature, English Literature 1700-1830, Politics and International Relations, International Relations and International Organisations
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    Literature, English Literature 1700-1830, Politics and International Relations, International Relations and International Organisations
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    Swift rose from obscurity to become not only one of the greatest satirists in English, but also one of the most influential foreign policy writers in Europe during the early eighteenth century. Yet his extensive engagement with the international sphere – war, peace, alliances, trade, and international law – is a neglected aspect of both his literary legacy and modern international thought. This is the first comprehensive study of his international politics in theory and practice. Drawing on the work of Swift and his contemporaries, and scholarship across literature, history, politics, international relations, theology, law, and economics, Matthew Gertken vindicates Swift's self-definition as a political independent, neither Whig nor Tory, neither libertarian nor authoritarian. His international perspective rescues Swift from the critical but overdone Hobbes-Locke dichotomy and reveals him to be an ally of Aristotle and Grotius, father of international law – and a champion of right over might.

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