Browsing Faculty of Humanities by Author "Freire, Lucas G."

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    • Foreign relations in the ancient near east: oaths, curses, kingship and prophecy 

      Freire, Lucas G. (UNISA Press, 2017)
      Oaths and curses, embedded in a covenantal context, were paramount normative mechanisms in the foreign relations between ancient Near Eastern kings. This article provides an account of the political role of covenants and ...

    • Political thought, international relations and a Tale of Two Modernities 

      Freire, Lucas G. (University of the Free State, 2017)
      In their book Empire, Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri develop a narrative about the transition from the mediaeval to the modern, secular, world, showing that there were two projects of modernity at first, but that one ...

    • Security studies: towards a Reformational approach 

      Freire, Lucas G. (Brill, 2016)
      How can reformational philosophy help us reconceptualise the notion of security? In the field of Security Studies, theoretical isms abound, each of them rooted in a different philosophical tradition. One of these approaches, ...