Martin Wight

Foreign Policy and Security Strategy (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Yost, David

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Foreign Policy and Security Strategy collects works by the late Professor Martin Wight (1913-1972), an historian and scholar of international relations. Wight conducted research on many topics, including British colonial history, European studies, international institutions, and the history of states-systems. He is nonetheless best known for his lectures about the political philosophy of international relations at the London School of Economics (1949-1961) and the University of Sussex (1961-1972). He is widely regarded as an intellectual ancestor and pathbreaker of the ?English School? of international relations, even though this term only gained currency nine years after his death. The ?English School? is usually construed as signifying an approach to the study of international relations more rooted in historical and humanistic learning than in the social sciences. Despite Wight's reputation as a scholar focused on historical and philosophical matters, he articulated noteworthy policy prescriptions in six domains: (a) the balance of power; (b) international order, notably regarding neutrality and nationalism; (c) nuclear weapons and international politics; (d) interests, honour, and prestige in statecraft; (e) disarmament and public opinion; and (f) the United Nations. These writings have been neglected, partly because his perfectionism led him to refrain from publishing many of them. However, as this new collection of his works (many previously unpublished) shows, he took distinctive positions on practical policy questions. He asked ?Does Peace Take Care of Itself?? - as implied by Kantian principles - and concluded that it does not, and that purposeful action will therefore be necessary.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. September 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780192693792
• Artikelnr.: 69010516

Autorenporträt

Dr. David S. Yost is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California. His books have been published by Harvard University Press, the United States Institute of Peace, and the International Institute for Strategic Studies. He has held fellowships from Fulbright, NATO, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and the United States Institute of Peace, and he was a senior research fellow at the NATO Defense College in Rome in 2004-2007. He earned a Ph.D. in international relations from the University of Southern California. Martin Wight was one of the most important twentieth century British scholars of International Relations. He taught at the London School of Economics (1949-1961) and the University of Sussex (1961-1972), where he served as the founding Dean of the School of European Studies. Wight is often associated with the British Committee on the Theory of International Politics and the so-called English School of International Relations.

Inhaltsangabe

* Foreword by Paul Schulte
* 1: Introduction: Martin Wight on Foreign Policy and Security Strategy
* 2: The Balance of Power in Diplomatic Investigations
* 3: The Balance of Power and International Order in The Bases of
International Order
* 4: Does Peace Take Care of Itself?
* 5: The Idea of Neutrality
* 6: Nationalism and World Order
* 7: Has Scientific Advance Changed the Nature of International
Politics in Kind, Not Merely in Degree?
* 8: The Political Consequences of Nuclear Weapons
* 9: War and Peace: The Hobbesian Predicament
* 10: War and Peace: Nuclear Weapons and Change in International
Politics
* 11: Arms Races
* 12: Interests of States
* 13: Interests, Honour and Prestige
* 14: Is the Commonwealth a Non-Hobbesian Institution?
* 15: Suggestions for a Projected Study of International Security
Organisation
* 16: From the League to the UN
* 17: The United Nations Assembly
* 18: The United Nations General Assembly
* 19: The Security Council
* 20: Two Blocs in One World
* 21: The Power Struggle within the United Nations
* 22: Review of Henrique de Pinheiro, The World State or the New Order
of Common Sense
* 23: Review of John Middleton Murry, Trust or Perish
* 24: Review of David Mitrany, A Working Peace System: An Argument for
the Functional Development of International Organization (London:
National Peace Council, 1946)
* 25: Review of Ely Culbertson, Must We Fight Russia? (Philadelphia:
The John C. Winston Company, 1946)
* 26: Review of C. E. M. Joad, Conditions of Survival (London: Federal
Union, 1946)
* 27: Review of J. L. Brierly, The Covenant and the Charter
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1947)
* 28: Review of W. W. Rostow, The American Diplomatic Revolution
(Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1947)
* 29: Review of William C. Bullitt, The Great Globe Itself: A Preface
to World Affairs (New York: Scribner, 1946, and London: Macmillan,
1947)
* 30: Review of Frances Perkins, U.S. Secretary of Labor from
1933-1945, The Roosevelt I Knew, (New York: Viking Press, 1947;
London: Hammond, Hammond and Co., 1947)
* 31: Review of Barbara Ward, Policy for the West (London: Penguin,
1951)
* 32: Review of John MacLaurin, The United Nations and Power Politics
(London: Allen and Unwin, 1952)
* 33: Review of Hugh Seton-Watson, The Pattern of Communist Revolution
(London: Methuen, 1953). (American Edition: From Lenin to Malenkov:
The History of World Communism, New York: Praeger, 1953)
* 34: Review of A. P. Thornton, The Imperial Idea and Its Enemies: A
Study in British Power (London: Macmillan, 1959)
* 35: Review of John H. Herz, International Politics in the Atomic Age
(New York: Columbia University Press, 1959).
* 36: Review of Rupert Emerson, From Empire to Nation: The Rise to
Self-Assertion of Asian and African Peoples (Cambridge,
Massachusetts, Harvard University Press; and London, Oxford
University Press, 1960)
* 37: Review of Hugh Seton-Watson,Neither War nor Peace: The Struggle
for Power in the Post-War World (London, Methuen, 1960)