Guide to the English School in International Studies

Bringing together the latest scholarship from a global group of expert contributors, this guide offers a comprehensive examination of the English School approach to the study of international relations. Beginning with the work of the British Committee on International Relations, the book covers all the major theoretical ideas of the English School and explains the concepts used for analyzing themes, trends, and dilemmas. It shows how the English School mapped out the development of working rules of a European international society that spread to the rest of the world through colonization and imperialism, and details a set of operating institutions, such as diplomacy, the balance of power, and international law. Throughout the book there is an emphasis on the historical and geographical expansion of international society. Insightful and rigorous, this volume demonstrates just what it is that sets the approach of the English School apart from others within international relations.

About the Contributors Introduction  Daniel M. Green Chapter I: The Historical Development of the English School  Hidemi Suganami Chapter 2: The British Committee on the Theory of International Politics and Central Figures in the English School  Roger Epp Chapter 3:  The British Committee and International Society: History and Theory  Brunello Vigezzi Chapter 4: The Historical Expansion of International Society  Barry Buzan and Richard Little Chapter 5: The Institutions of International Society  Laust Schouenborg Chapter 6: The International System–International Society Distinction  Tim Dunne and Richard Little Chapter 7: The Regional Dimension of International Society  Yannis A. Stivachtis Chapter 8:  The International Society – World Society Distinction  John Williams Chapter 9: Order and Justice  Andrew Hurrell Chapter 10:  The Pluralist–Solidarist Debate in the English School William Bain Chapter 11:  Three Traditions of International Thought  Edward Keene Chapter 12:  Normative Theory in the English School  Molly Cochran Chapter 13:  English School Methodology  Cornelia Navari Chapter 14: The Global Diffusion of the English School  Yongjin Zhang Index

Cornelia Navari is Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Birmingham, and Visiting Professor of International Affairs at the University of Buckingham, UK. Her research covers the history of thought on international relations in the 20 th century and beyond, including thinkers in the English School. She is the editor of Theorising International Society (2009) and author of  Public Intellectuals and International Affairs (2013) and Internationalism and the State in the 20 th Century (2000).  Daniel M. Green is Associate Professor of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Delaware, USA, and a former Chair of the English School Section of the International Studies Association. He is the author of The Logics of International Politics (forthcoming), and editor of the English School section of The International Studies Compendium Project , published in association with the International Studies Association (Wiley–Blackwell, 2010), and Constructivism and Comparative Politics (2002).