Silviya Lechner was Assistant Professor and is currently a senior visiting research fellow at King's College London, UK. She specialises in social and political philosophy, theory of action, and international political theory. She is the co-author of Practice Theory and International Relations (with M. Frost, 2018).

PART I. Authority

Chapter 1. Reading Hobbes as a Theorist of Anarchy and Authority

Chapter 2. Authority and the Problem of Political Philosophy

PART II. Anarchy

Chapter 3. The State of Nature in The Elements

Chapter 4. The State of Nature in De Cive

Chapter 5. The State of Nature in Leviathan

PART III. Hobbes's Theory of International Relations

Chapter 6. Hobbes and the International Anarchy

Chapter 7. Hobbesian Internationalism: Hobbes Meets Kant

Chapter 8. Challenges: Globalisation and the Resurgence of Private Authority