Reimagining Weber
Constructing International Society and the Social Balance of Power
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6060419 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joanna M Hobson (0000-0002-7340-567X, The University of Sydney, corresponding author), John M Hobson (The University of Sydney), Leonard Seabrooke (0000-0001-5581-3293, The University of Sydney) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 239-274 |
| Publication date | 2001-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | European Journal of International Relations (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1354-0661 • E-ISSN: 1460-3713 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1354066101007002004 |
| OpenAlex | W2026359647 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 17 |
| References cited | 60 |
This article `reimagines' Max Weber, who is conventionally thought to be one of realism's founding fathers. While Weber's work had various ambiguities and tensions, we suggest that his conception of IR had much in common with liberalism, and especially the English School. Nevertheless, our `reimagining' of Weber augments in a sustained and particular way an area of analysis that has not been consistently or sufficiently developed within the English School; namely an emphasis on the social legitimacy of a particular form of state-society complex that is constitutive of international society. In contrast to Hedley Bull, who viewed sovereignty and diplomacy as sufficient criteria of legitimacy, Weber insisted that international society could only be successfully reproduced once the constituent state-society complexes had become `socially embedded' (comprising a domestic social balance of power between a democratic state and a strong civil society). Weber, unlike Bull, advocated a social domestic analogy
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| Unique citing works | 17 |
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| Citations per year | 0,74 |
| Citation span | 2003 - 2024 (22) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 17 |