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The English School of International Relations

The English School of International Relations

The English School of International Relations

A Contemporary Reassessment
Andrew Linklater, University of Wales, Aberystwyth
Hidemi Suganami, University of Wales, Aberystwyth
June 2006
Available
Hardback
9780521858359

    What is the English School of International Relations and why is there increasing interest in it? Linklater and Suganami provide a comprehensive account of this distinctive approach to the study of world politics which highlights coexistence and cooperation, as well as conflict, in the relations between sovereign states. In the first book-length volume of its kind, the authors present a comprehensive discussion of the rise and development of the English School, its principal research agenda, and its epistemological and methodological foundations. The authors further consider the English School's position on progress in world politics, its relationship with Kantian thought, its conception of a sociology of states-systems and its approach to good international citizenship as a means of reducing harm in world politics. Lucidly written and unprecedented in its coverage, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in international relations and politics worldwide.

    • First comprehensive and up-to-date discussion of the English School of International Relations
    • Explains the development of the School and its contribution to International Relations
    • Analyses the School's prospects for further development in world politics

    Product details

    June 2006
    Hardback
    9780521858359
    320 pages
    235 × 159 × 24 mm
    0.629kg
    Available

    Table of Contents

    • 1. The idea of 'the English School' as a historical construct
    • 2. The argument of the English School
    • 3. The English School on 'International Relations as an intellectual pursuit'
    • 4. Progress and its limits: system, society and community in world politics
    • 5. Cosmopolitanism and the harm principle in world politics
    • 6. The sociology of states-systems
    • 7. The good international citizen and the transformation of international society.
      Authors
    • Andrew Linklater , University of Wales, Aberystwyth

      Andrew Linklater is the Woodrow Wilson Professor of International Politics at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. He is the author of The Transformation of Political Community (1998), Beyond Realism and Marxism (1990) and Men and Citizens in the Theory of International Relations (2nd edition, 1990).

    • Hidemi Suganami , University of Wales, Aberystwyth

      Hidemi Suganami is Professor of International Politics at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. Previous publications include On the Causes of War (1996) and The Domestic Analogy and World Order Proposals (1989).