This is a comprehensive college textbook on political theory by three internationally acclaimed academic authors, Dr. Chieke E. Ihejirika, Dr. Zviad Kliment Lazarashvili and Dr. Gari T. Chafidze. An excellent textbook on political theory for undergraduate and graduate students, which contains detailed theories of 24 philosophers: Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Philo, Marcus Aurelius, St. Augustine, Aquinas, Averroes, Machiavelli, Thomas More, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Adam Smith, Marx, Kant, Mill, Henry David Thoreau, St. Ilia Chavchavadze, Confucius, Lao Tzu, MLK Jr., Hannah Arendt, John Rawls, Leo Tolstoy and Anton Makarenko. Authors present the development of political theory in a historical perspective: from Hellenist era to Theocratic philosophers, from Social Contract Theorists to Political Economists, from Rational Idealists to Humanists, from Oriental Political Thinkers to American Civil Rights Movement and European Realists. The book contains a chapter on Traditional Africanism: the case of Igbo Political Philosophy. Extensive Reference includes Magna Carta, The Declaration of Independence, The US Constitution and the Gettysburg Address - complete and unabridged versions. The book has three internationally acclaimed experts on political science as its authors: Dr. Ihejerika is an associate professor at Lincoln University, history and political science department. Dr. Zviad Kliment Lazarashvili is an expert on political theory, Henry David Thoreau, philosophy and economics. He tought both in Europe and America: at Tbilisi State University of Economic Relations and Law, Rvali University, Georgian International Academy and Lincoln University. Dr. Lazarashvili is the author of several books in political science, philosophy, economics and English and Georgian literature. Dr. Gari T. Chafidze is the world renowned academic figure in political science, pedagogy and journalism. He is an Academician and a full member of several national academies of sciences of Georgia and Ukraine. He is an author of over seventy scholarly books which have been widely accepted in scientific and academic circles of Georgia, Russia, Ukraine, Europe and now the United States. Dr. Chafidze is the author of the first and only Georgian-Ukrainian Dictionary and the first and only Georgian-Belarusian Idiomatic Dictionary.