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This outstanding book is the first comprehensive introduction to the English School of International Relations. Written by leading ES scholar Barry Buzan, it expertly guides readers through the English School's formative ideas, intellectual and historical roots, current controversies and future avenues of development.
List of contents
Foreword vii
Part I Background and Context 1
Introduction 3
1 The Evolution of the English School 5
2 Key Concepts 12
3 Theories and Methodologies 21
Conclusions to Part I 39
Part II The Historical/Structural Orientation 41
Introduction 43
4 International Society in World History 47
5 The Expansion of European International Society 60
Conclusions to Part II: Theorizing International Society as
Social Structure 78
Part III Normative Orientations: Pluralism and Solidarism 81
Introduction 83
6 Classical Pluralism and its Successors 89
7 Pluralism in Historical Perspective 97
8 Classical Solidarism and its Successors 113
9 Solidarism in Historical Perspective 134
Conclusions to Part III 164
10 Ongoing Debates and Emergent Agendas 168
Notes 188
References 194
Index 223
About the author
Barry Buzan is Emeritus Professor of International Relations at the LSE (formerly Montague Burton Professor), honorary professor at Copenhagen and Jilin Universities, and a Senior Fellow at LSE Ideas. In 1998 he was elected a fellow of the British Academy.
Summary
This outstanding book is the first comprehensive introduction to the English School of International Relations. Written by leading ES scholar Barry Buzan, it expertly guides readers through the English School s formative ideas, intellectual and historical roots, current controversies and future avenues of development.
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"Barry Buzan has led the rejuvenation of the English school since the turn of the century. This gem of a book is the culmination of his research leadership of this important theoretical domain of contemporary international relations. Readers will be pleased to find plenty of the analytical insight for which the author is renowned, supplemented by sharp commentaries on aspects of the historical, structural, and normative dimensions of the English school."
Tim Dunne, University of Queensland
"This book is the culmination of Buzan's call for a reconvening of the English School. Every conceivable aspect of the English School, what Buzan describes as a great conversation about international and world society, is included in this impressive book. Students and scholars alike will want to have this on their bookshelf."
Brian C. Schmidt, Carleton University
