Imperialism and Internationalism in the Discipline of International Relations

Description

What were the guiding themes of the discipline of International Relations before World War II? The traditional disciplinary history has long viewed this time period as one guided by idealism and then challenged by realism. This book reconstructs in detail some of the formative episodes of the field's early development and arrives at the conclusion that, in actuality, the early years of International Relations were preoccupied not with idealism and realism but with the dual themes of imperialism and internationalism. Thus, the beginnings of the discipline have resonance with the recently revived discourse of empire and the global status and policies of the United States as the world's sole superpower.

Preface

Introduction
David Long and Brian C. Schmidt

1. Francis Lieber, Imperialism, and Internationalism
David Clinton

2. Paul S. Reinsch and the Study of Imperialism and Internationalism
Brian C. Schmidt

3. Paternalism and the Internationalization of Imperialism: J. A. Hobson on the International Government of the "Lower Races"
David Long

4. "A Liberal in a Muddle": Alfred Zimmern on Nationality, Internationality, and Commonwealth
Jeanne Morefield

5. Fabian Paternalism and Radical Dissent: Leonard Woolf's Theory of Economic Imperialism
Peter Wilson

6. Internationalism and the Promise of Science
Jan-Stefan Fritz

7. Birth of a Discipline
Robert Vitalis

References

Contributors

SUNY Series in Global Politics

Index

Sujets

• International relations
• 20th century

Informations

• Publié par: State University of New York Press
• Date de parution: 01 janvier 2006
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780791483930
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

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I INTERNATIONALISM MPERIALISM AND in the Discipline of International Relations

Edited by David Long and Brian C. Schmidt

Imperialism and Internationalism in the Discipline of International Relations

SUNY series in Global Politics

James N. Rosenau, editor

Imperialism and Internationalism in the Discipline of International Relations

Edited By David Long and Brian C. Schmidt

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Imperialism and internationalism in the discipline of international relations / edited by David Long and Brian C. Schmidt. p. cm. — (SUNY series in global politics) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-7914-6323-0 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. Internationalism. 2. Imperialism—Philosophy. 3. International relations—History—20th century. I. Long, David, 1962– II. Schmidt, Brian C., 1966– III. Series.

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This book is dedicated to our children, Amanda and Sara & Katy and Chris, who keep us focused on the future even as we delve into the past.

Contents

Preface Introduction David Long and Brian C. Schmidt

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Francis Lieber, Imperialism, and Internationalism David Clinton

Paul S. Reinsch and the Study of Imperialism and Internationalism Brian C. Schmidt

Paternalism and the Internationalization of Imperialism: J. A. Hobson on the International Government of the “Lower Races” David Long

“A Liberal in a Muddle”: Alfred Zimmern on Nationality, Internationality, and Commonwealth Jeanne Morefield

Fabian Paternalism and Radical Dissent: Leonard Woolf ’s Theory of Economic Imperialism Peter Wilson

Internationalism and the Promise of Science Jan-Stefan Fritz

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Chapter 7 Birth of a Discipline Robert Vitalis References Contributors SUNY Series in Global Politics Index

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Preface

This book reflects our common scholarly interest in the disciplinary history of International Relations (IR). As a result of the work that we have previously completed on the history of the field, we both share the sense that IR as an aca- demic enterprise seriously undervalues the study of its own history. At one level, this is not surprising given the construction of the discipline as a social science wherein disciplinary history becomes little more than a catalogue of past errors and omissions. There is certainly an abundant literature that chron- icles the history of the field with the explicit aim of either noting particular failures or advancing one agenda or another. Yet we believe that many of these accounts fail to reconstruct the actual disciplinary history of International Relations. The aim of this volume is to reconstruct in detail some of the for- mative episodes of the early disciplinary history of the field. Within much of the so-called historical literature, there often appears to be more emphasis placed on the present contours of the field than on recovering its institutional history. Perhaps this is one of the reasons why the same set of assumptions about how the field has developed are repeated over and over again. As a result of the recent upsurge of interest in the history of IR, we are learning that many of the commonly held assumptions about the development of the field are actually incorrect. A number of articles and books have been written that collectively challenge the conventional wisdom regarding the his- tory of the field. This volume is a contribution to what we consider to be a grow- ing and increasingly sophisticated scholarly conversation not only about the origins of IR but the character of theory and theoretical development. Concomitant with the latest interest in various dimensions of the field’s past has been a growing sophistication in the manner in which international relations scholars have approached the task of writing disciplinary history. Greater atten- tion to historiographical issues on the part of the newest cohort of disciplinary

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