British Committee on the Theory of International Politics

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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.

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 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of papers specially conceived for the Committee which provoked lively internal discussions and most of which are still unpublished.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

  1. 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'.