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

本文研究的是国际关系学科的主要理论范式之一——英国学派的历史。社会经济学有着悠久的历史，通过其关键概念，包括国际社会、团结主义和制度，它为国际政治研究提供了独特的宏观层面的方法。esc还为我们这个时代的关键政策辩论做出了贡献。其中包括围绕不干涉、自由主义国际秩序的衰落以及规范和制度的出现的辩论。然而，近几十年来，社会经济学在哲学上分裂为两个不可比较的派别——实证主义者和解释主义者。ES已经变得模糊不清，难以理解。我的论文旨在提供1990年至2020年知识范式的详细历史，以提高我们对ES的理解。这个项目的驱动力是理解ES的“范式认同”。这就需要超越传统的国际思想史研究方法。事实上，该项目处于国际关系的跨学科领域，包括历史和史学、心理学、科学哲学和知识社会学。虽然这篇论文是为专门的IR读者准备的，但对于所有学科的科学范式是如何找到追随者的，它们是如何努力定义自己和构建身份的，每个人都感兴趣。

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.