The English school on the frontiers of international society
A Hermeneutic Recollection
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5791959 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Roger Epp (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 47-64 |
| Publication date | 1998-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Review of International Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0260-2105 • E-ISSN: 1469-9044 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0260210598000473 |
| OpenAlex | W2017972949 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 29 |
it is, contrary to what one would expect, the future which drives us back into the past. Hannah ArendtIt is almost two decades ago that the Review published Roy Jones' famous 'case for closure' against what he christened the English school of international relations. While that case was couched in an anxious foreboding that the school was 'still in its prime', that its bonds 'are proving much too strong', and that 'young recruits are constantly coming forward', it arguably registered a growing sense at the time that its target was a safe one, a spent force - one whose attraction defied explanation. For the work of the English school was a 'sterile regime'. It lacked intellectual coherence, rigour, passion, and acquaintance with such important social-scientific fields as economics. Whether Jones had cast his polemical net too widely over a heterodox group, or missed the mark with his criticisms, the absence of any spirited, sustained reply along these lines seems, in retrospect, to reinforce the impression that the approach identified most closely with Martin Wight and Hedley Bull had run out of steam. It had made little impression in the United States. In British circles it had become the faintly embarrassing traditionalism which scholars were obliged to overcome, a synonym for scholarly provincialism, one that engaged the world from such insular vantage points as the common room of the London School of Economics. It stood accused of inhibiting access to the fruits of American social science while inclining, at bottom, to the same political realism that had predominated in the U.S. The mostly unspoken accusation of anachronism has never gone away
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The English School
On Cultural Diversity
The English School and International Theory
On the History and Historiography of International Relations
The English School of International Relations
International Political Economy and Globalization
International Society and its Critics
Do you know what I mean?’ ‘Not exactly’
Philosophical issues in the English School of international relations
The English school and the classical approach
Shape shifting
Interpreting the English school
La Legitimite, C'est Moi
The importance of the Eurasian steppe to the study of international relations
International society’s challenge of targeted killing by drones
Imagining Society
IR as Practical Philosophy
Australia's International Relations and the (IR)relevance of Theory
World society, international society and the colonization of Africa
Untying Leifer's discourse on order and power
Classical English School Theory and the Ottoman/Turk
Why is there no gender in the English School
Entry into international society reconceptualised
Neutrals as brokers of peacebuilding ideas
The study of international society after Watson
Re-evaluating the contribution and legacy of Hedley Bull
The English School's Contribution to the Study of International Relations
Playing the game of sovereign states
Justice, Community and Dialogue in International Relations
| Unique citing works | 29 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1.12 |
| Citation span | 2000 - 2023 (24) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 29 |