Tim Dunne
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- January 2005
- ISBN:
- 9780199265206
- eISBN:
- 9780191601866
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0199265208.003.0004
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics
The final two chapters in Part One investigate the evolving research agenda of the English School of International Relations and its contribution to contemporary international relations. In this ...
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The final two chapters in Part One investigate the evolving research agenda of the English School of International Relations and its contribution to contemporary international relations. In this chapter, the author explores what may be described as the ‘new agenda’ in English School thinking about world politics. He begins by briefly tracing the long history of the concept of international society, noting how it has become synonymous with the English School despite the fact that other paradigms have also made use of the term. He moves on to reiterate one of the central claims of the first part of this book: that the English School and the concept of international society have been propelled to the forefront of contemporary debates about world politics by important sociological and normative developments in mainstream international relations in North America. He then identifies four core and as yet unsolved ‘puzzles’ that will frame the English School's new agenda as it continues to develop; these are the relationship between agency and structure, the boundaries between international society and world society, the moral basis of international society, and the tension between forces of society and hierarchy in contemporary world politics.Less
The final two chapters in Part One investigate the evolving research agenda of the English School of International Relations and its contribution to contemporary international relations. In this chapter, the author explores what may be described as the ‘new agenda’ in English School thinking about world politics. He begins by briefly tracing the long history of the concept of international society, noting how it has become synonymous with the English School despite the fact that other paradigms have also made use of the term. He moves on to reiterate one of the central claims of the first part of this book: that the English School and the concept of international society have been propelled to the forefront of contemporary debates about world politics by important sociological and normative developments in mainstream international relations in North America. He then identifies four core and as yet unsolved ‘puzzles’ that will frame the English School's new agenda as it continues to develop; these are the relationship between agency and structure, the boundaries between international society and world society, the moral basis of international society, and the tension between forces of society and hierarchy in contemporary world politics.
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780804750301
- eISBN:
- 9780804779418
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804750301.003.0003
- Subject:
- Law, Legal History
This chapter addresses Hegel's problematic. First, it explains Hegel's notion of a prehistorical or prelegal stateless ethos. Hegel privileges two factors: the similarity of the natural being with an ...
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This chapter addresses Hegel's problematic. First, it explains Hegel's notion of a prehistorical or prelegal stateless ethos. Hegel privileges two factors: the similarity of the natural being with an animal and the characteristics of the barbarian. Second, it isolates Hegel's hierarchy of societies. In this context, Hegel identifies various levels of barbarism, he elaborates the nature of legal consciousness in a barbaric society, and he emphasizes how progress materializes in civilization. Third, it connects Hegel's notion of civilization to the legitimacy of a modern legal order. Fourth, it contextualizes historically the problematic in the troubled stateless condition of Germany in his own times. Finally, it elaborates why Hegel recognizes the modern state-centric legal order as the highest form of civilization.Less
This chapter addresses Hegel's problematic. First, it explains Hegel's notion of a prehistorical or prelegal stateless ethos. Hegel privileges two factors: the similarity of the natural being with an animal and the characteristics of the barbarian. Second, it isolates Hegel's hierarchy of societies. In this context, Hegel identifies various levels of barbarism, he elaborates the nature of legal consciousness in a barbaric society, and he emphasizes how progress materializes in civilization. Third, it connects Hegel's notion of civilization to the legitimacy of a modern legal order. Fourth, it contextualizes historically the problematic in the troubled stateless condition of Germany in his own times. Finally, it elaborates why Hegel recognizes the modern state-centric legal order as the highest form of civilization.
