The International Society Tradition

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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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.

 

• International Relations theory
• IR Theory
• The International Society
• The English School
• The International Society tradition
• Political Theory
• Hugo Grotius
• Hedley Bull
• international law
• humanitarianism
• solidarism
• pluralism

“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)

• University of Buckingham, Buckingham, UK

  Cornelia Navari

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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