Theorising International Society

CORNELIA NAVARI is Professor of International Affairs at the University of Buckingham, UK. She directed the MA programme in International Studies at the University of Birmingham for many years and is now contributing to the new programme in Global Governance at the University of Buckingham. She is well-known for her advocacy of professional education in international relations. Her research covers the history of thought on international relations in the 20th century and beyond, including thinkers in the English School. Her work on Hobbes and international relations is considered definitive.

• Introduction: Methods and Methodology in the English School; C.Navari International Relations as a Craft Discipline; R.Jackson What the Classical English School was Trying to Explain, and Why its Members Were Not Interested in Causal Explanation; C.Navari Constructivism and the English School; C.Reus-Smit History, Theory and Methodological Pluralism in the English School; R.Little International Society as an Ideal Type; E.Keene Theorising Order: The Case of Hedley Bull The Anarchical Society ; K.J.Holsti The English School and the Activity of Being an Historian; W.Bain The English School's Approach to International Law; P.Wilson Law, Power and the Expansion of International Society; B.A.Roberson The Limits of Progress: Normative Reasoning in the English School; J.Mayall