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The English school of international relations: a case for closure*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 October 2009

Roy E. Jones
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There now exists a substantial body of publications on international relations which may be fairly described as the output of a distinct school. Though its seminal thinkers, Charles Manning and Martin Wight, are no longer with us, the core of its extant membership (Hedley Bull, Michael Donelan, F. S. Northedge, Robert Purnell and others) is still in its prime and young recruits are constantly coming forward. Though delighted by this human prospect, its literary possibilities find me something less than enthusiastic. For it seems to me that repetition has set in and is likely to get worse as the years pass.

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Research Article
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Review of International Studies , Volume 7 , Issue 1 , January 1981 , pp. 1 - 13
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Copyright © British International Studies Association 1981

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References

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11. On this point see Forsyth, Murray, ‘Thomas Hobbes and the external relation of states’, British Journal of International Studies, v (1979), pp. 196–209CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

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25. Donelan, op. cit. p. 16.