History and International Relations

Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-0-19-286747-6
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 352 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 237 mm, Gewicht: 788 g

History and International Relations 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, and 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.

This volume encompasses works in four categories: (a) standards of excellence in scholarship about history and international relations; (b) European integration efforts since 1945; (c) British policy in the Middle East, notably in relation to the 1956 Suez crisis; and (d) European politics in the interwar period leading up to 1939. This last category features four chapters by Wight from the noteworthy Chatham House collection sponsored by the Royal Institute of International Affairs, The World in March 1939. These chapters on Germany and Eastern Europe stand out as exceptionally thorough and discerning, owing in part to their reliance on a wealth of primary and secondary sources. This collection also includes Wight's reviews of works by Geoffrey Barraclough, Marc Bloch, Herbert Butterfield, R. G. Collingwood, Denis Mack Smith, Sir Lewis Namier, A. J. P. Taylor, Arnold J. Toynbee, Veronica Wedgwood, and other historians.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wight, Martin

Yost, David S.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1: What Is International Relations?

- 2: History and the Study of International Relations

- 3: What Makes a Good Historian?

- 4: The Principles of Historiographical Criticism

- 5: The Concept of Europe

- 6: United Europe: The Historical Background

- 7: Europe After 1945

- 8: British Policy in the Middle East

- 9: Brutus in Foreign Policy: The Memoirs of Sir Anthony Eden

- 10: Germany in The World in March 1939

- 11: Eastern Europe in The World in March 1939

- 12: Spain and Portugal in The World in March 1939

- 13: Switzerland, the Low Countries, and Scandinavia in The World in March 1939

- 14: Note on Partition

- 15: Arnold Toynbee: An Appreciation

- 16: Review of Arnold J. Toynbee, A Study of History, abridgment of Volumes I-VI by D.C. Somervell

- 17: Review of Arnold J. Toynbee, Civilisation on Trial

- 18: Dame Veronica Wedgwood, O.M.

- 19: Review of Charles Petrie, Diplomatic History 1713-1933

- 20: Review of A.L. Rowse, The Use of History, and R. G. Collingwood, The Idea of History

- 21: Review of Jacob Bronowski and Bruce Mazlish, The Western Intellectual Tradition

- 22: Review of Marc Bloch, The Historian's Craft

- 23: Review of Homer Carey Hockett, The Critical Method in Historical Research and Writing, and Geoffrey Barraclough, History in a Changing World

- 24: Review of Denis Mack Smith, Cavour and Garibaldi

- 25: Review of A. J. P. Taylor, Rumours of Wars

- 26: Review of A. J. P. Taylor, The Struggle for Mastery in Europe, 1848-1918

- 27: Review of A.J.P. Taylor, Bismarck: The Man and the Statesman

- 28: Review of A.J.P. Taylor, The Habsburg Monarchy, 1809-1918: A History of the Austrian Empire and Austria-Hungary in International Affairs

- 29: Review of Herbert Butterfield, History and Human Relations

- 30: Review of Edouard Perroy, The Hundred Years' War

- 31: Review of L. B. Namier, Avenues of History

- 32: Review of Sir Lewis Namier, In the Nazi Era

Über Autor(innen)

David S. Yost is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California. His books have been published by Harvard University Press, the United States Institute of Peace, and the International Institute for Strategic Studies. He has held fellowships from Fulbright, NATO, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and the United States Institute of Peace, and he was a senior research fellow at the NATO Defense College in Rome in 2004-2007. He earned a Ph.D. in international relations from the University of Southern California.

Martin Wight was one of the most important twentieth century British scholars of International Relations. He taught at the London School of Economics (1949-1961) and the University of Sussex (1961-1972), where he served as the founding Dean of the School of European Studies. Wight is often associated with the British Committee on the Theory of International Politics and the so-called English School of International Relations.