Pluralism, Solidarism and the Emergence of World Society in English School Theory

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ID4444413
AuthorsJohn Williams (0000-0003-3173-6048, Durham University), John Allen Williams (0000-0001-5127-4608, Durham University, corresponding author)
Year2005
Volume19
Issue1
Pages19-38
Publication date2005-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Relations (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0047-1178 • E-ISSN: 1741-2862
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0047117805050060
OpenAlexW2119837777
LanguageEN
Citations received41
References cited16

This article argues that the debate between pluralism and solidarism in English School theory has been cast in such a way as to hand the progressive cause to solidarism, taking for granted that moves towards the emergence of world society further a solidarist normative agenda. This article suggests this is because of assumptions about the nature and location of such changes within English School theory. However, an alternative understanding of change, as emerging from tensions arising within the pluralist understanding of international society, has been overlooked. This enables a challenge to be raised to the assumption that world society must be solidarist, producing an initial defence of a potentially ethically desirable pluralist form of world society

Cultural pluralism · Economics · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Law and economics · Normative · Pluralism (philosophy) · Political economy · Political science · Positive economics · Social science · Sociology · Law · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Religion and Society Interactions

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