Conclusion

All histories of ideas are open to contestation. Methodologically, the temptation is to re-write the text, re-interpret the idea, according to current scholarly conventions or prevailing political ideologies. Whilst recognising the twin dangers of presentism and imposing undue coherence upon a particular group of thinkers, the book has shown that there exists a family resemblance linking the work of key thinkers, in British International Relations from E.H. Carr to R.J. Vincent. In a loosely Wittgensteinian sense, a family resemblance denotes the presence of networks of similarities ‘overlapping and criss-crossing.’ 2 The first part of the conclusion retraces these similarities and in so doing serves as a précis of the ‘story’ of the English School. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

Coherence (philosophical gambling strategy) · Epistemology · Ideology · Political science · Politics · Presentism · Sociology · Temptation · Law · Mathematics · Philosophy · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Political Theory and Influence · Psychology · Social Psychology

• Understanding International Relations

  Open Access•Chris Brown•Understanding International…•1997

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• The structure of international society

  Chris Brown•International Affairs•1996

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• Philosophical investigations

  Ludwig Wittgenstein•Philosophical investigations•1974

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• The Anarchical Society

  Open Access•Hedley Bull•The Anarchical Society•1977

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• Collective Identity Formation and the International State

  Open Access•Alexander Wendt•American Political Science Review•1994

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• Human wrongs and international relations

  Ken Booth•International Affairs•1995

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