What is the English School of International Relations and why is there increasing interest in it? The authors provide a comprehensive account of the rise and development of the School, its principal research agenda, its methodological foundations and itscontribution to international relations.
Introduces non-Western IR traditions to a Western IR audience, and challenges the dominance of Western theory. This book challenges criticisms that IR theory is Western-focused and therefore misrepresents much of world history by introducing the reader to non-Western traditions, literature and histories relevant to how IR is conceptualised.
This volume outlines the methods appropriate to an English school understanding of international relations and their assumptions about how knowledge of the 'social' is gained. It outlines what is involved in 'an English school approach' and what this approach delivers in the contemporary understanding of international relations.
"World political processes, such as wars and globalization, are engendered by complex sets of causes and conditions. Although the idea of causation is fundamental to the field of International Relations, what the concept of cause means or entails has remained an unresolved and contested matter. In recent decades ferocious debates have surrounded the idea of causal analysis, some scholars even q…