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The International Society Tradition

From Hugo Grotius to Hedley Bull

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Authors:
  1. Cornelia Navari

    1. University of Buckingham, Buckingham, UK

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  • Tracks the intellectual history of the concept of The International Society
  • Provides the authoritative account of the backstory of the English School
  • Written by one of the leading thinkers in this field

Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in International Relations (PSIR)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction: Two Ideas of Tradition

    • Cornelia Navari
    Pages 1-13

  3. Grotius the Innovator (1625)

    • Cornelia Navari
    Pages 15-28

  4. Hobbes (1588–1679), a Contributor, and Pufendorf (1632–1694), the Master

    • Cornelia Navari
    Pages 29-42

  5. The Gottingen Historians, Heeren (1760–1842) and Ranke (1795–1886): The Real Thing

    • Cornelia Navari
    Pages 43-57

  6. Eighteenth-Century Scepticism: Rousseau, Kant and Vattel

    • Cornelia Navari
    Pages 59-73

  7. The French Revolution: Concert, Progress and Civilization—Gentz, Wheaton and Lorimer

    • Cornelia Navari
    Pages 75-92

  8. Civilization as Humanity: The ‘Men of 1873’, John Westlake and the Grotius Society

    • Cornelia Navari
    Pages 93-104

  9. The Recovery of Vitoria and Suarez, and the Apprehension of a World Society: Krabbe, Verdross and Leon Duguit

    • Cornelia Navari
    Pages 105-119

  10. The Lawyers and the League: Charles Manning, Hersch Lauterpacht and Georg Schwarzenberger

    • Cornelia Navari
    Pages 121-142

  11. The British Committee, Hedley Bull (1932–1985) and the Theory of International Society

    • Cornelia Navari
    Pages 143-159

  12. International Society as a Research Tradition: Vincent, Keene, Wheeler and Buzan, Among Others

    • Cornelia Navari
    Pages 161-180

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 181-190
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About this book

This book traces the development of the international society tradition from its origins in Grotius’ On the Law of War and Peace to its crystallization in Bull’s The Anarchical Society. It follows the idea of sociability among peoples as it was presented by Grotius and substantiated by Pufendorf, through the skepticism of Voltaire and Kant, to emerge as humanitarian warfare and human rights in the international liberal movement, ‘world society’ in the 20th century Catholic revival, and common practices and social understandings in the English School in the period of disciplinary development in international relations after the Second World War.

 

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“This book will be of interest to those who too often date the birth of International Society to the workings of the British Committee of International Relations. Navari’s prose is sophisticated, lucid, authoritative and engaging … . This is a testament not just to Navari’s authority, but to her constant contribution to advancing the English School. … these two books will certainly serve as a reminder of the former, and a stimulus for the latter.” (Filippo Costa Buranelli, International Affairs, Vol. 98 (6), 2022)

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Buckingham, Buckingham, UK

    Cornelia Navari

About the author

Cornelia Navari was Associate Professor of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Birmingham UK and Visiting Professor of International Affairs at the University of Buckingham.  She has written Internationalism and the State in the 20th Century (2000) and Public Intellectuals and International Affairs (2012). Among edited works are Hans J Morgenthau and the American Experience (2018), International Organization in the Anarchical Society (2019) with Tonny Brems Knudsen, and International Society: The English School (2020). She was made an International Studies Association Distinguished Scholar in 2019.

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