This volume outlines the methods appropriate to an English School understanding of international relations and their assumptions about how knowledge of the social is gained. It makes clear what is involved in "an English School approach" and what such an approach delivers in the contemporary understanding of international relations.
Author(s): Cornelia Navari
Year: 2009
Language: English
Pages: 288
Contents......Page 6
List of Figures......Page 7
Contributors......Page 8
Introduction: Methods and Methodology in the English School......Page 10
1 International Relations as a Craft Discipline......Page 30
2 What the Classical English School was Trying to Explain, and Why its Members Were not Interested in Causal Explanation......Page 48
3 Constructivism and the English School......Page 67
4 History, Theory and Methodological Pluralism in the English School......Page 87
5 International Society as an Ideal Type......Page 113
6 Theorising the Causes of Order: Hedley Bull’s The Anarchical Society......Page 134
7 The English School and the Activity of Being an Historian......Page 157
8 The English School’s Approach to International Law......Page 176
9 Law, Power and the Expansion of International Society......Page 198
10 The Limits of Progress: Normative Reasoning in the English School......Page 218
Bibliography......Page 236
C......Page 249
E......Page 250
H......Page 251
I......Page 252
M......Page 253
P......Page 254
S......Page 255
V......Page 256
W......Page 257
