Publications – CHIHIRO KARIYA

Articles & Chapters

The International Politics of Jealousy:

Edmund Burke, Adam Smith and James Mackintosh

Edmund Burke

Japanese

This paper aims to think about global governance through the classics, focusing on the language, in particular on jealousy, of international relations in Britain during the French Revolutionary Wars. This paper explores perceptions on relations between states of the statesman Edmund Burke (1730-1797) and his contemporaries (the political economist (philosopher) Adam Smith (1723-1790) and the political pamphleteer James Mackintosh (1765-1832) . Through the above discussion, it questions what is…

James Mackintosh in Bombay:

Colonial Rule of the Scottish Enlightenment

Enlightenment

Empire

Japanese

Neither his contemporaries nor today’s scholarship has paid enough attention to James Mackintosh in Bombay. Mackintosh, a leading figure in the Scottish Enlightenment, was the author of A Discourse on the Study of the Law of Nature and Nations, a book that is forgotten today but that attracted the attention of his contemporaries. He was an exceptional political theorist who stayed in the Indian subcontinent. This study organizes his discussion of state, relations between states, and narrative…

The Language of War and Peace in Britain during the French Revolution:

Controversy over Burke’s Letters on a Regicide Peace

Edmund Burke

Interstate Relations

Empires

Japanese

This paper examines the language of war and peace in Revolutionary-era Britain through political pamphlets responding to Edmund Burke’s Letters on a Regicide Peace (First and Second Letters). While Burke defended continued war against Revolutionary France, his opponents challenged both his arguments and his conception of peace. By analysing how these pamphleteers interpreted Burke and the rhetorical strategies they employed, and by comparing their arguments with leading modern interpretations…

The Eloquence in Wartime:

Mackintosh on Burke’s Letters on a Regicide Peace

Edmund Burke

Reception of Rhetoric

Japanese

This paper explores the political context of eloquence in Britain during the French Revolutionary Wars, by examining the controversy on peace with France. Burke’s enigmatic political pamphlet Letters on a Regicide Peace, published for continuing the war in 1796, is one of the most difficult works to interpret. The pamphlet which interweaves threads of rich rhetoric and antagonism toward France has kept scholarship away for a long time. Some scholars have found in the text international theory…

The Law of Nations in Britain during the French Revolution

Edmund Burke and James Mackintosh

Edmund Burke

Interstate Relations

Empires

Japanese

This paper examines how the French Revolution transformed British understandings of the law of nations through the lens of counter-revolutionary thought. Focusing on Edmund Burke’s Letters on a Regicide Peace and James Mackintosh’s A Discourse on the Law of Nature and Nations (1799), it analyses how both authors reinterpreted international order in response to revolutionary France. Drawing on the frameworks of David Armitage and Edward Keene, and contrasting their arguments with Blackstone’s…

November 1, 2019

Burke on Empire:

The Dilemma of Liberty and Empire

Edmund Burke

Empire

Japanese

British conceptions of empire were shaped by political arguments on liberty. This study revisits on Edmund Burke’s empire thought in the light of the dilemma of liberty and empire, demonstrating that he struggled to reconcile liberty with empire. And the paper tries to offer his original contribution to history of discourse on empire. Burke regarded British Empire’s problems after the Seven Years’ War as unknown, and could not rely on the example of Roman, Greek, or even British colonies. In…

Book Reviews

Review of Hanna Fenichel Pitkin, The Concept of Representation

Tosho Shinbun [The Book Review]

Japanese

‘Review of Hanna Fenichel Pitkin, The Concept of Representation (Japanese translation, Nagoya University Press, 2017), Tosho Shinbun [The Book Review], The Book Review Press, 3350.

Review of Richard Bourke, Empire and Revolution: The Political Life of Edmund Burke

Igirisu Tetugaku Kenkyu [Studies in British Philosophy]

Edmund Burke

Japanese

‘Review of Richard Bourke, Empire and Revolution: The Political Life of Edmund Burke, Princeton University Press, 2015’, Igirisu Tetugaku Kenkyu [Studies in British Philosophy], Japanese Society for British Philosophy, 40, 88-89.

‘Review of David Armitage, Foundations of Modern International Thought

Igirisu Tetugaku Kenkyu [Studies in British Philosophy]

Edmund Burke

Japanese

‘Review of David Armitage, Foundations of Modern International Thought (Japanese translation, Hosei University Press, 2015), Igirisu Tetugaku Kenkyu [Studies in British Philosophy], Japanese Society for British Philosophy, 39, 105-107.

Translation

C. H. Alexandrowicz. ‘Kautilyan Principles and the Law of Nations’

Gurobal Hisutori to Kokusai-ho [Globai History and International Law]

Edmund Burke

Japanese

C. H. Alexandrowicz (2017), ‘Kautilyan Principles and the Law of Nations (1965-66)’, in The Law of Nations in Global History, David Armitage and Jennifer Pitts, eds, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 35-52. (Japanese translation, Gurobal Hisutori to Kokusai-ho [Globai History and International Law], Nihon Keizai Hyoronsya, 2020).

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