Chapter 1 the Enigmatic Martin Wight 1
Notes Chapter 1 The Enigmatic Martin Wight 1. Throughout this book I have followed the convention that “International Relations” or “IR” refers to the academic field that concerns the study of the relations—political, economic, social, and so on—between states, sub-state actors, international institutions, and so on, and that “international relations” refers to their actual conduct. 2. Tim Dunne, Inventing International Society: A History of the English School (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1998), p. 47. 3. Michael Nicholson, “The Enigma of Martin Wight,” Review of International Studies 7:1 (1981): 15–22. 4. Wight, Power Politics, Looking Forward Pamphlet no. 8 (London: Royal Institute for International Affairs, 1946), p. 66. 5. Ibid., p. 68. 6. Winston S. Churchill, The World Crisis, 1911–1918 (London: Thornton Butterworth, 1923–1931); George F. Kennan, Russia and the West under Lenin and Stalin (Boston: Little, Brown, 1961), p. 164. 7. E. H. Carr, The Twenty Years’ Crisis, 1919–1939: An Introduction to the Study of International Relations (London: Macmillan, 1939). 8. Leslie Paul, The Age of Terror (London: Faber & Faber, 1950); G. F. Hudson, The Hard and Bitter Peace: World Politics since 1945 (London: Pall Mall Press, 1966). 9. Denis Brogan, The Price of Revolution (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1951), p. vii. 10. Plato, The Republic, trans. Allan Bloom, 2nd ed. (New York: Basic Books, 1991), 361–362, pp. 38–40. 11. Wight, “Western Values in International Relations,” in Herbert Butterfield and Martin Wight (eds.), Diplomatic Investigations: Essays in the Theory of International Politics (London: Allen & Unwin, 1966), p. 122. 12. Plato, Republic, trans. Bloom, 496c–d, p.
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