1. The history of political thought and the national discourses of politics Dario Castiglione and Iain Hampsher-Monk; 2. The voice of the 'Greeks' in the Conversation of Mankind Janet Coleman; 3. History of political theory in the Federal Republic of Germany: strange death and slow recovery Wolfgang Mommsen; 4. A German version of the 'Linguistic Turn': Reinhart Koselleck and the history of political and social concepts (Begriffsgeschichte) Melvin Richter; 5. One hundred years of history of political thought in Italy Angelo D'Orsi; 6. Discordant voices: American histories of political thought Terry Ball; 7. The Professoriate of Political Thought in England since 1914: a tale of three chairs Robert Wokler; 8. The history of political thought and the political history of thought Iain Hampsher-Monk; 9. The rise of, challenge to, and prospects of a Collingwoodian approach to the history of political thought Quentin Skinner; 10. Towards a philosophical history of the political Pierre Rosanvallon; 11. 'Le Retour des Emigrés'?: The study of the history of political ideas in contemporary France Jeremy Jennings; 12. National political cultures and regime changes in Eastern and Central Europe Victor Neumann; 13. The limits of the national paradigm in the study of political thought: the case of Karl Popper and Central European Cosmopolitanism Malachi Hacohen; 14. Postscript: Disciplines, canons, and publics: the history of the 'History of Political Thought' in comparative perspective Stefan Collini.