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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 | + | 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. |
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| − | 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 | + | 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 the Rockfeller Foundation. |
==Publications== | ==Publications== | ||
Latest revision as of 13:20, 2 March 2011
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.
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Meetings
Under the guidance of Herbert Butterfield, Martin Wight, Adam Watson[1] 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 the 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.
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Notes
- ↑ Obituary on Times Online Obituary on Telegraph Martin Wight - quoted in Vigezzi (2005: 414) - portrayed Watson as 'an avid reader of everything, and a shrewd intellectual magpie'.
