Imperialism And Internationalism in the Discipline of International Relations

by Long, David; Schmidt, Brian C.

• ISBN13: 9780791463246
• ISBN10: 0791463249
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-01-01
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

Summary

What were the guiding themes of the discipline of International Relations before World War II? The traditional disciplinary history has long viewed this time period as one guided by idealism and then challenged by realism. This book reconstructs in detail some of the formative episodes of the field's early development and arrives at the conclusion that, in actuality, the early years of International Relations were preoccupied not with idealism and realism but with the dual themes of imperialism and internationalism. Thus, the beginnings of the discipline have resonance with the recently revied discourse of empire and the global status and policies of the United States as the world's sole superpower. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Introduction	1	(22)
David Long and Brian C. Schmidt
Chapter 1 Francis Lieber, Imperialism, and Internationalism	23	(20)
David Clinton
Chapter 2 Paul S. Reinsch and the Study of Imperialism and Internationalism	43	(28)
Brian C. Schmidt
Chapter 3 Paternalism and the Internationalization of Imperialism: J.A. Hobson on the International Government of the "Lower Races"	71	(22)
David Long
Chapter 4 "A Liberal in a Muddle": Alfred Zimmern on Nationality, Internationality, and Commonwealth	93	(24)
Jeanne Morefield
Chapter 5 Fabian Paternalism and Radical Dissent: Leonard Woolf's Theory of Economic Imperialism	117	(24)
Peter Wilson
Chapter 6 Internationalism and the Promise of Science	141	(18)
Jan-Stefan Fritz
Chapter 7 Birth of a Discipline	159	(24)
Robert Vitalis
References	183	(20)
Contributors	203	(2)
SUNY Series in Global Politics	205	(4)
Index	209