International Society Tradition

Cornelia Navari was Associate Professor of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Birmingham UK and Visiting Professor of International Affairs at the University of Buckingham.  She has written Internationalism and the State in the 20th Century (2000) and Public Intellectuals and International Affairs (2012). Among edited works are Hans J Morgenthau and the American Experience (2018), International Organization in the Anarchical Society (2019) with Tonny Brems Knudsen, and International Society: The English School (2020). She was made an International Studies Association Distinguished Scholar in 2019.

“This book will be of interest to those who too often date the birth of International Society to the workings of the British Committee of International Relations. Navari’s prose is sophisticated, lucid, authoritative and engaging … . This is a testament not just to Navari’s authority, but to her constant contribution to advancing the English School. … these two books will certainly serve as a reminder of the former, and a stimulus for the latter.” (Filippo Costa Buranelli, International Affairs, Vol. 98 (6), 2022)

• Chapter 1: Introduction: Two Ideas of Tradition.- Chapter 2: Grotius the Innovator (1625).- Chapter 3: Hobbes (1588 -1679), a Contributor, and Pufendorf (1632 – 1694), the Master.- Chapter 4: The Gottingen Historians, Heeren (1760-1842) and Ranke (1795-1886): the Real Thing.- Chapter 5: Eighteenth-Century Scepticism: Rousseau, Kant and Vattel.- Chapter 6: The French Revolution—Concert, Progress and Civilization:  Gentz, Wheaton and Lorimer.- Chapter 7: Civilization as Humanity: the “men of 1873”, John Westlake and the Grotius Society.- Chapter 8: The Recovery of Vitoria and Suarez and the apprehension of a World Society: Krabbe, Verdross and Leon Duguit.- Chapter 9: The Lawyers and the League: Charles Manning, Hersch Lauterpacht and Georg Schwarzenberger.- Chapter 10: The British Committee, Hedley Bull (1932-1985) and the Theory of International Society.- Chapter 11: International Society as a Research Tradition: Vincent, Keene, Wheeler, Buzan, among others.