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Leo Pasvolsky and an Open World Economy
No full textLeo Pasvolsky (August 22, 1893 – May 5, 1953) was a journalist, economist, state department official and special assistant to Secretary of State Cordell Hull. He was one of the United States government's main planners for the post World War II world and "probably the foremost author of the UN Charter." During the 1930s and 1940s, he envisioned a stable, open world economy based on international political cooperation involving a successor to the League of Nations, wider than an alliance of democracies, and with international police powers. This chapter shows how his beliefs and proposals of the pre – war period had an impact on his contribution to the ‘Post-war Planning’ (PWP) process within the State Department. It also shows that he had major disagreements with some other PWP officials, notably Isaiah Bowman, especially over the future role of Soviet Russia in the post-war international order.<br/
Global Constitutionalism as Middle Ground Ethics
No full textA study of Martin Wight as a theorist of global constitutionalism through his work on the legislative councils of the colonial period
‘Reconvening’ the English School
No full textIn this chapter, I aim to describe and critically evaluate Barry Buzan’s project to reconvene the English School in the late 1990s and early 2000s. The first part outlines the ‘internal’ and ‘external’ resistance that Buzan encountered, and discusses how this resistance was informed by different understandings of methods and philosophy of science. The second part discusses the actual contents of Buzan’s (Review of International Studies 27 (3): 471–488, 2001) call to reconvene the English School in the form of the forum article he published in Review of International Studies. This part will engage with the potential theoretical innovation identified by Buzan and the additional focus areas for research he proposed, before finally discussing the extent to which scholars have successfully addressed these
Morgenthau in Europe: Searching for the Political
No full textThis chapter investigates Hans Morgenthau’s last years in Europe, aiming to identify the role that his intellectual socialization in Germany, Spain, and Switzerland played for his later American writings. To that extent, two of Morgenthau’s European writings are being discussed in more detail: The Concept of the Political and the Theory of International Differences and On the Purpose of Science in These Times and on Human Destiny. In these texts, Morgenthau elaborated on the crisis of modern societies and spoke against positivistic sciences. In later years, this would bring him to formulate an ethics of responsibility and to support a reflective, democratic dimension in foreign policymaking, demonstrating the importance of the European Morgenthau for the American Morgenthau
Middle-Ground Ethics and Human Rights in International Relations
No full textThe English School approach to International Relations generally claims to put forward an understanding of international affairs that occupies a "middle ground" between a power-politics view and an understanding informed by morality. In this article I claim that this attempt at a "middle ground" position does not work. Instead, I propose a constitutive theory as a better way to achieve this reconciliation
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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