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British liberal internationalism, 1880-1930

Making progress?

By Casper Sylvest

British liberal internationalism, 1880-1930
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  • ISBN: 9780719079092
  • Publish Date: Nov 2009
  • Publisher: Manchester University Press
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    • Format: Hardcover
    • ISBN: 978-0-7190-7909-2
    • Pages: 288
    • Price: £85.00
    • Published Date: November 2009

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    This book explores the development, character, and legacy of the ideology of liberal internationalism in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Britain. Liberal internationalism provided a powerful way of theorising and imagining international relations, and it dominated well-informed political discourse at a time when Britain was the most powerful country in the world. Its proponents focused on securing progress, generating order and enacting justice in international affairs. Liberal internationalism united a diverse group of intellectuals and public figures, and it left a lasting legacy in the twentieth century. This book elucidates the roots, trajectory, and diversity of liberal internationalism, focusing in particular on three intellectual languages - international law, philosophy and history - through which it was promulgated. Finally, it traces the impact of these ideas across the defining moment of the First World War. The liberal internationalist vision of the late-nineteenth century remained popular well into the twentieth century and forms an important backdrop to the development of the academic study of International Relations in Britain.

    Contents

    List of figures
    Acknowledgements
    List of abbreviations
    1. Introduction
    Part I - Beginnings
    2. Victorian liberalism and the roots of liberal internationalism
    Part II - Languages
    3. Legal evolution and the redemption of international law
    4. Philosophy and internationalist ethics
    5. Liberal internationalism and the uses of history
    Part III - Traces
    6. Into the twentieth century
    7. A postscript
    Bibliography
    Index

    Author

    Casper Sylvest is Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science and Public Management at the University of Southern Denmark

    British liberal internationalism, 1880-1930

    By Casper Sylvest

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