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.
Author(s): Andrew Linklater, Hidemi Suganami
Series: Cambridge Studies in International Relations
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2006
Language: English
Pages: 320
Tags: Международные отношения;Международные отношения;Теория международных отношений;
Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Series-title......Page 6
Title......Page 7
Copyright......Page 8
Contents......Page 9
Acknowlegements......Page 11
Introduction......Page 13
1 The idea of ‘The English School’ as a historical construct......Page 24
The English School debate in the 1980s......Page 29
Roy Jones (1981) on the English School......Page 30
Suganami (1983) on the British institutionalists......Page 32
Grader (1988) and Wilson (1989) on the English School......Page 35
Development in the 1990s......Page 37
Buzan (1993) and Little (1995, 2000)......Page 38
Dunne (1998) on the English School......Page 45
The nature of the English School......Page 51
The argument of the English School......Page 55
Against the domestic analog: Manning, Wight and Bull......Page 56
Manning on international society......Page 59
From Manning to Bull......Page 61
International system, international society and world society......Page 64
Bull on basic values......Page 68
Pluralism and solidarism......Page 71
The relative efficacy of the sovereign states system......Page 80
Wheeler's solidarism......Page 83
The historical study of international society......Page 86
Conclusion......Page 90
The English School on ‘International Relations as an intellectual pursuit’......Page 93
History, historical knowledge and IR......Page 96
Science, Sociology and International Relations......Page 109
Norms, values and International Relations......Page 120
English School research projects......Page 126
Progress and its limits: system, society and community in world politics......Page 129
Beyond strategic relations......Page 135
The strengths and weaknesses of pluralist international society......Page 140
Towards solidarism in International Relations......Page 147
The expansion of international society......Page 159
Conclusion......Page 165
Cosmopolitanism and the harm principle in world politics......Page 167
Kant's radicalized rationalism......Page 172
The harm principle in international relations......Page 181
Applications of the harm principle in world politics......Page 188
Conclusion......Page 199
The sociology of states-systems......Page 201
Two concepts of historical sociology......Page 203
Towards a sociology of cosmopolitan harm conventions......Page 211
Modernity and progress......Page 218
Conclusion......Page 233
The good international citizen and the transformation of international society......Page 235
Pluralism and beyond......Page 246
The solidarist ethic......Page 254
Ethical challenges in relations between solidarists and pluralists......Page 258
Conclusion......Page 267
Conclusion......Page 271
Bibliography......Page 285
Index......Page 304
