Henry Noel Brailsford's Radical International Relations Theory

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4894151
AutoresPeter Lamb (0000-0003-2400-0999, University of Staffordshire, autor de correspondencia)
Año2011
Volumen25
Número4
Páginas479-498
Fecha de publicación2011-12-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaInternational Relations (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0047-1178 • E-ISSN: 1741-2862
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0047117811404581
OpenAlexW2158675533
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4

Compared with some of his contemporaries Brailsford is relatively neglected today. He offered incisive analysis of the international relations of his times, discussing political and economic aspects together. He grounded his contributions upon a view of human nature that drew on the ideas of Godwin, Shelley and Condorcet. A cosmopolitan, socialist political philosophy also underpinned his work. Brailsford was sharply critical of balance-of-power theory, which served to veil the actual intentions of statesman and the capitalist entrepreneurs whose policies they benefited. He was also critical, like Laski, of sovereignty theory which masked the dominance of capitalist interests in the modern state and international system. Over several decades these aspects of his work contributed to his proposals for a radical league of nations. His work will be of interest to IR scholars today

Balance (ability) · Condorcet method · Critical theory · Dominance (genetics) · League · Political philosophy · Political radicalism · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Social science · Sociology · Sovereignty · Elite Sociology and Global Capitalism · International Relations and Foreign Policy · Law · Political Economy and Marxism · Psychology