University of Sussex Royal Institute for International Affairs
Notable students
Coral Bell, Hedley Bull
Notable works
Power Politics (1946)
"Why Is There No International Theory?" (1960)
Diplomatic Investigations (1966) Systems of States (1977) International Theory (1991)
Notable ideas
Three traditions in international theory, international society
Influenced
Hedley Bull[5]
Robert James Martin Wight (26 November 1913 – 15 July 1972) was one of the foremost British scholars of international relations in the twentieth century. He was the author of Power Politics (1946; revised and expanded edition 1978), as well as the seminal essay "Why Is There No International Theory?" (first published in the journal International Relations in 1960 and republished in the edited collection Diplomatic Investigations in 1966). He was a teacher of some renown at both the London School of Economics and the University of Sussex, where he served as the founding Dean of European Studies.
Wight is often associated with the British committee on the theory of international politics – "British" to distinguish it from an American body that had been founded under similar auspices – and the so-called English school of international relations theory. His work, along with that of the Australian philosopher John Anderson, was a lasting influence upon the thought of Hedley Bull, author of one of the most widely read texts on the nature of international politics, The Anarchical Society (1977).[6]
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viewed as a flow, into and away from "those instruments that enforce it". MartinWight deplored the "demonic concentrations of power" of the defeated countries...
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continues in the present day. Under the guidance of Herbert Butterfield, MartinWight, Adam Watson and Hedley Bull, the British Committee on the Theory of...
examination of traditions of past international theory, casting it, as MartinWight did in his 1950s-era lectures at the London School of Economics, into...
centralised sovereign power, and their agreements unpoliced and decentralised, MartinWight argued that international society is better described as anarchy. Hans...
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International relations theorist and researcher. Alongside Hedley Bull, MartinWight, Herbert Butterfield, and others, he was one of the founding members...
ideology." Journal of Modern Italian Studies 17.2 (2012): 183–204. Wight, Martin; Wight, Gabriele, and Porter, Brian, eds. Four Seminal Thinkers in International...
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unipolarity, world historian Arnold Toynbee and political scientist MartinWight had drawn the same conclusion with an unambiguous implication for the...
Investigations: Essays in the Theory of International Politics (co-edited with MartinWight), 1966. Magna Carta in the Historiography of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth...
Harold Laski, Eric Voegelin, Carlo Sforza, Jacob Viner, Quincy Wright and MartinWight. Later, in the late 1920s and 1930s, summer schools of international...
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