Twentieth Century America in the Society of States

Cornelia Navari was Associate Professor at the University of Birmingham and Visiting Professor at the University of Buckingham, UK, and is a distinguished scholar of the English School Section of the International Studies Association. She is the author of The International Society Tradition, From Hugo Grotius to Hedley Bull (2021) and editor of International Society: The English School (2021). She has edited Nineteenth Century America in the Society of States (2024, with Yannis A. Stivachtis) and International Organization in the Anarchical Society (2019, with Tonny Brems Knudsen).Yannis A. Stivachtis is Professor of Government and International Affairs and Jean Monnet Chair at Virginia Tech and Director of Virginia Tech’s Center for European and Transatlantic Studies (CEUTS). His publications include Adam Watson and International Relations: A Contemporary Reassessment (2024, with Filippo Costa Buranelli), Nineteenth Century America in the Society of States (2024, with Cornelia Navari) and World Society in English School Theory (2018, editor).

The discussion about America’s role in the long twentieth century has for too long been dominated by either a realist focus on US power or a liberal preoccupation with economic interdependence as the most effective way of constructing order. In this entirely original study, the much under-appreciated ‘English School’ of International Relations plots a third way, suggesting that order is based not so much on the projection of power or economic cooperation, but through a set of complex institutional mechanisms and agreed rules.- Michael Cox, Professor Emeritus of International Relations at the London School of Economics and Founding Director of LSE IDEAS

• 1. Theory and Practice in the Society of States: An Introduction by Yannis Stivachtis and Cornelia Navari 2. Between Neutrality and Collective Security by David Clinton 3. America and the Outlawry of War by Cornelia Navari 4. The United States and Non-Recognition of Forcible Territorial Acquisitions by Mikulas Fabry 5. America and Self-determination by Hussein Banai 6. The United States and the Four Freedoms by Andrew Williams 7. The United States and De-Colonisation by Jack Mellish 8. The United States and Democracy Promotion by Daniel Green 9 America and the Rogue State by Geoffrey Wiseman 10 The United States and International Criminal Justice by Matthew Weinert and Dennis Schmidt 11 The United States and the Balance of Power by Yannis Stivachtis