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The '''British Committee on the Theory of International Politics''' was a group of scholars created in 1959 under the chairmanship of the Cambridge historian [[Herbert Butterfield]], with financial aid from the Rockefeller Foundation, that met periodically in [[Cambridge]], [[Oxford]], [[London]] and [[Brighton]] to discuss the principal problems and a range of aspects of the theory and history of international relations. The Committee developed a study of international society and the nature of world politics, which have had an important impact that continues in the present day.

==Meetings==
Under the guidance of [[Herbert Butterfield]], [[Martin Wight]], [[J. H. Adam Watson|Adam Watson]]<ref name="Obit">[http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article2672629.ece Obituary on Times Online] [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/news/2007/09/28/db2803.xml Obituary on Telegraph] Martin Wight - quoted in Vigezzi (2005: 414) - portrayed Watson as 'an avid reader of everything, and a shrewd intellectual magpie'.</ref> and [[Hedley Bull]], the British Committee on the Theory of International Politics met three times a year for an almost thirty-year period from the 1950s to the 1980s, once or twice in [[Italy]]. In 1974 a three days meeting (27-30 September) was held at Villa Serbelloni, Bellagio, in agreement with Rockfeller foundation.

==Publications==
They produced books, essays, article, and they regularly wrote a series of papers specially conceived for the Committee which provoked lively internal discussions and most of which are still unpublished.

==External links==
*[http://www.polis.leeds.ac.uk/research/international-relations-security/english-school/ Reconvening the English School of International Relations Theory]

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