The Past Is Dead. Long Live the Past! A Manifesto for (Teaching) Social Change
Historiography becomes not only a valuable object of study, but also a crucial reminder that every present has its own version of the past.
Civilizations and Global Hierarchies: An English School Approach
The concept of ‘civilization’ differentiates, evaluates, includes, and excludes. In doing so, the civilization discourse creates global hierarchies.
Review – An Introduction to the English School of International Relations
Buzan’s seminal work on the English School offers a stimulating introduction for all students and scholars of IR and highlights the need for further research
The English School, Post-Western IR, and Beyond
The globalization of the English School is currently taking place as non-Western theories develop. It will be interesting to see how this evolves and whether it leads to a post-Western world society.
The English School as Global Crossroads: From Methodological Eclecticism to Cultural Pluralism
The English School exists where positivists and post-positivists often fear to tread: at the intersections between power, law and idea(l)s, order and justice, humanity and community, history and the present.
Lost in Translation? Importing the English School to America
Robert Murray’s edited collection ‘System, Society and the World’ illustrates the value of a pluralist approach under the umbrella of English School research.
Regional International Societies, the Polysemy of Institutions and Global International Society
The regional agenda of the English School has so far neglected the polysemy of institutions within international society, which in turn relies on a distinction between norms and rules.
The Need for an English School Research Program
Until the practitioners of the English School begin to define precisely what an ES research program would look like, the School’s impact on international theory remains outside the mainstream.
Great Power Management: English School Meets Governmentality?
Whilst there is hardly any doubt as to the existence of four of the five major institutions of international society identified by Hedley Bull, this is not the case with the fifth institution: great power management.
World Society as Humankind
World society never attracted as much attention as its sister concept, international society, which has served in the classical English School tradition as the via media between realism and revolutionism.
