David Boucher (political scientist)

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  • The Social and Political Thought of R. G. Collingwood. (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1989). ISBN   0-521-36384-5.
  • A Radical Hegelian: The Political Thought of Henry Jones (New York, St. Martin's Press, 1994: Cardiff, University of Wales Press, 1993). ISBN   0-7083-1207-1.
  • Political Theories of International Relations: From Thucydides to the Present (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1998). ISBN   0-19-878054-0.
  • Steel, Skill and Survival: A Social History of Rugby in Ebbw Vale and the Valleys (Llandybie, Dinefwr Press, 2000). ISBN   0-9539293-0-2.
  • British Idealism and Political Theory (Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2000)/ ISBN   07486 14281.
  • Dylan and Cohen: Poets of Rock and Roll (New York, Continuum, 2004). ISBN   0-8264-5981-1
  • The Limits of Ethics in International Relations: Natural Law, Natural Rights and Human Rights in Transtition (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 2009). ISBN   978-0-19-920352-9
  • British Idealism: A Guide for the Perplexed. ISBN   978-0-8264-9678-2
  • Liberalism and Human Rights: Idealist Perspectives. ISBN   978-957-732-469-6.
  • Appropriating Hobbes: Legacies in Politics, Law and International Relations (Oxford University Press, 2018). ISBN   0-19-881721-5
  • Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen: Deaths and Entrances, with Lucy Boucher (New York: Bloomsbury, 2021). ISBN   978-1-5013-4566-1
  • Language, Culture and Decolonisation, ed. (Cape Town: HSRC Press, 2022). ISBN   978-0-7969-2612-8
  • Decolonisation: Revolution and Evolution, ed. with Ayesha Omar (Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 2023). ISBN   978-1-77614-845-5


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    2. ↑ "British Idealism: A Guide for the Perplexed".
    3. ↑ "Academy of Social Sciences Fellow".
    4. ↑ "Professor David Boucher".
    5. ↑ "David Boucher".
    6. ↑ "Collingwood and British Idealism Studies journal".
    7. ↑ "UJ's Prof David Boucher elected as Vice-President of the prestigious Learned Society of Wales".
    8. ↑ Wintrop, Norman (1989). "Reviews: David Boucher, Texts in Context: Revisionist Methods for Studying the History of Ideas (Martinus Nijhoff, Dordrecht, 1985)". Thesis Eleven. 22: 140–142. doi:10.1177/072551368902200115. S2CID   144622274.
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    10. ↑ Tregenza, Ian (2019). "Appropriating Hobbes: Legacies in Political, Legal, and International Thought". The European Legacy. 26 (1): 1–3. doi:10.1080/10848770.2019.1681185. S2CID   210464252.
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    14. ↑ Boucher, David (2000). "Tocqueville, Collingwood, History and Extending the Moral Community". The British Journal of Politics and International Relations. 2 (3): 326–351. doi:10.1111/1467-856X.00040. S2CID   143553611.
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    23. ↑ "Political Theories of International Relations: From Thucydides to the Present".
    24. ↑ The Limits of Ethics in International Relations: Natural Law, Natural Rights, and Human Rights in Transition. Oxford University Press. 2009. ISBN   978-0-19-920352-9.
    25. ↑ "Professor's Poets of Rock and Roll book translated internationally for global market".
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    Professor
    David Boucher
    FRHistS FAcSS FLSW
    NationalityBritish
    Occupation(s)Political theorist and philosopher
    Academic background
    Alma mater University of Wales
    The London School of Economics
    The University of Liverpool