Ebook: The British Committee on the Theory of International Politics (1954-1985): The Rediscovery of History

Since the '50s, until well into the '80s, the meetings of the British Committee on the Theory of International Politics were an important moment to reflect on the international life of the past and the present, and a unique " laboratory of ideas " on the theory and history of international relations. With this book Brunello Vigezzi reconstructs for the first time the calendar of all the meetings of the Committee; offers an anthology of the writings of some authors of the Committee and, based on an extensive unpublished documents, offers an original interpretation of a complex history still little known. The Committee and its history are viewed against the background of the general crisis of historicism, in connection with the ongoing battle between "facts" and "values," and in the context of major changes considered by the different schools to work in the field of international relations.