Foreign Policy and Security Strategy
by: Martin Wight (Author), Prof David Yost (Editor)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication Date: 2024-01-17
Language: English
Print Length: 304 pages
ISBN-10: 0192867881
ISBN-13: 9780192867889
Book Description
Foreign Policy and Security Strategy collects works by the late Professor Martin Wight (1913-1972), an historian and scholar of inteational relations. Wight conducted research on many topics, including British colonial history, European studies, inteational institutions, and the history of states-systems. He is nonetheless best known for his lectures about the political philosophy of inteational relations at the London School of Economics (1949-1961) and the University of Sussex (1961-1972). He is widely regarded as an intellectual ancestor and pathbreaker of the “English School” of inteational relations, even though this term only gained currency nine years after his death. The “English School” is usually construed as signifying an approach to the study of inteational relations more rooted in historical and humanistic leaing than in the social sciences.
Despite Wight’s reputation as a scholar focused on historical and philosophical matters, he articulated noteworthy policy prescriptions in six domains:(a) the balance of power; (b) inteational order, notably regarding neutrality and nationalism; (c) nuclear weapons and inteational politics; (d) interests, honour, and prestige in statecraft; (e) disarmament and public opinion; and (f) the United Nations. These writings have been neglected, partly because his perfectionism led him to refrain from publishing many of them. However, as this new collection of his works (many previously unpublished) shows, he took distinctive positions on practical policy questions. He asked “Does Peace Take Care of Itself?” – as implied by Kantian principles – and concluded that it does not, and that purposeful action will therefore be necessary.
About the Author
Dr. David S. Yost is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, Califoia. His books have been published by Harvard University Press, the United States Institute of Peace, and the Inteational Institute for Strategic Studies. He has held fellowships from Fulbright, NATO, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Woodrow Wilson Inteational Center for Scholars, and the United States Institute of Peace, and he was a senior research fellow at the NATO Defense College in Rome in 2004-2007. He eaed a Ph.D. in inteational relations from the University of Southe Califoia.
Martin Wight was one of the most important twentieth century British scholars of Inteational Relations. He taught at the London School of Economics (1949-1961) and the University of Sussex (1961-1972), where he served as the founding Dean of the School of European Studies. Wight is often associated with the British Committee on the Theory of Inteational Politics and the so-called English School of Inteational Relations.
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