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Foreign Policy and Security Strategy by Martin Wight, Prof David Yost (editor) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Foreign Policy and Security Strategy collects works by the late Professor Martin Wight (1913-1972), an historian and scholar of international relations. Wight conducted research on many topics, including British colonial history, European studies, international institutions, and the history of states-systems. He is nonetheless best known for his lectures about the political philosophy of international 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 international 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 international relations more rooted in historical and humanistic learning 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) international order, notably regarding neutrality and nationalism; (c) nuclear weapons and international politics; (d) interests, honour,

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Author
Martin Wight, Prof David Yost (editor)
Publisher
Oxford University PressOxford
Published
2023
Language
EN
ISBN
9780191959943
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Philosophy, History, Political Science

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