Foreign Policy and Security Strategy y 1st Edition Wight

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• ISBN 10: 0192693786
• ISBN 13: 9780192693785
• Author: Martin Wight
  

Foreign Policy and Security Strategy collects works by the late Professor Martin Wight (1913-1972), an historian and scholar of international relations. Wight conducted research on many topics, including British colonial history, European studies, international institutions, and the history of states-systems. He is nonetheless best known for his lectures about the political philosophy of international relations at the London School of Economics (1949-1961) and the University of Sussex (1961-1972). He is widely regarded as an intellectual ancestor and pathbreaker of the “English School” of international relations, even though this term only gained currency nine years after his death. The “English School” is usually construed as signifying an approach to the study of international relations more rooted in historical and humanistic learning than in the social sciences. Despite Wight’s reputation as a scholar focused on historical and philosophical matters, he articulated noteworthy policy prescriptions in six domains: (a) the balance of power; (b) international order, notably regarding neutrality and nationalism; (c) nuclear weapons and international politics; (d) interests, honour, and prestige in statecraft; (e) disarmament and public opinion; and (f) the United Nations. These writings have been neglected, partly because his perfectionism led him to refrain from publishing many of them. However, as this new collection of his works (many previously unpublished) shows, he took distinctive positions on practical policy questions. He asked “Does Peace Take Care of Itself?” – as implied by Kantian principles – and concluded that it does not, and that purposeful action will therefore be necessary.

Table contents:

1 The Balance of Power
2 The Balance of Power and International Order
3 Does Peace Take Care of Itself?
4 The Idea of Neutrality
5 Nationalism and World Order
6 Has Scientific Advance Changed the Nature of International Politics in Kind, Not Merely in Degree?
7 The Political Consequences of Nuclear Weapons
8 War and Peace: The Hobbesian Predicament
9 War and Peace: Nuclear Weapons and Change in International Politics
10 Arms Races
11 Interests of States
12 Interests, Honour, and Prestige
13 Is the Commonwealth a Non-Hobbesian Institution?
14 Suggestions for a Projected Study of International Security Organisation
15 From the League to the UN
16 The United Nations Assembly
17 The United Nations General Assembly
18 The Security Council
19 Two Blocs in One World
20 The Power Struggle within the United Nations
21 Review of Henrique de Pinheiro, The World State or the New Order of Common Sense (Rio de Janeiro:
22 Review of John Middleton Murry, Trust or Perish (Rickmansworth: Andrew Dakers, 1946)
23 Review of David Mitrany, A Working Peace System, An Argument for the Functional Development of In
24 Review of Ely Culbertson, Must We Fight Russia? (Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Company, 1946)
25 Review of C. E. M. Joad, Conditions of Survival (London: Federal Union, 1946)
26 Review of J. L. Brierly, The Covenant and the Charter (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 194
27 Review of W. W. Rostow, Harmsworth Professor of American History The American Diplomatic Revoluti
28 Review of William C. Bullitt, The Great Globe Itself: A Preface to World Affairs (New York: Scrib
29 Review of Frances Perkins, US Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1945, The Roosevelt I Knew (New Yor
30 Review of Barbara Ward, Policy for the West (London: Penguin, 1951)
31 Review of John MacLaurin, The United Nations and Power Politics (London: Allen and Unwin, 1952)
32 Review of Hugh Seton-Watson, The Pattern of Communist Revolution (London: Methuen, 1953)
33 Review of A. P. Thornton, The Imperial Idea and Its Enemies: A Study in British Power (London: Ma
34 Review of John H. Herz, International Politics in the Atomic Age (New York: Columbia University P
35 Review of Rupert Emerson, From Empire to Nation: The Rise to Self-Assertion of Asian and African
36 Review of Hugh Seton-Watson, Neither War nor Peace: The Struggle for Power in the Post-War World

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