Reinventing International Society: English School identitycrisis and the study of IR paradigms

本文是关于国际关系学主要理论范式之一的英国学派的历史。国际政治学有着悠久的历史，其核心概念包括国际社会、团结主义和制度，为国际政治研究提供了一种独特的宏观视角。经济学还有助于我们这个时代的关键政策辩论。这包括围绕不干涉、自由国际秩序的衰落以及规范和制度的出现的争论。然而，近几十年来，经济学已经分裂成两个在理论上不可分割的派别--实证主义者和解释主义者。ES很难理解。我的论文试图提供一个详细的历史知识范式从1990年到2020年，以提高我们的理解ES。这个项目的驱动力是理解ES的“范式身份”。这就需要超越传统的国际思想史研究方法。事实上，该项目本身位于跨学科的空间，包括历史和史学，心理学，科学哲学和知识社会学。虽然这篇论文的目的是为一个专门的IR观众，它是感兴趣的每个人都好奇的科学范式如何跨越所有学科找到追随者，他们如何努力定义自己和构建身份。

This thesis is about the history of the English School (ES) -one of the main theoretical paradigms in the discipline ofInternational Relations (IR). The ES has a long history andthrough its key concepts, including international society,solidarism and institutions, it provides a distinctive macro-level approach to the study of international politics. The ESalso contributes to crucial policy debates of our time. Theseinclude debates around non-intervention, the decline of theliberal international order and the emergence of norms andinstitutions. However, in recent decades the ES has splitinto two philosophically incommensurable wings - thepositivists and the interpretivists. The ES has becomemurky and difficult to understand. My thesis seeks toprovide a detailed history of the intellectual paradigm from1990 to 2020 to improve our understanding of the ES. Thedriving force of this project is to make sense of the"paradigm identity" of the ES. This necessitates goingbeyond traditional means of investigation in the history ofinternational thought. Indeed, the project situates itself inthe interdisciplinary space of IR that embraces history andhistoriography, psychology, philosophy of science andsociology of knowledge. Although the thesis is intended fora specialised IR audience, it is of interest to everyonecurious about how scientific paradigms across alldisciplines find adherents, how they struggle to definethemselves and construct identities.