On world politics

R. G. Collingwood, Michael Oakeshott and neotraditionalism in international relations

Alexander Astrov

Palgrave Macmillan

2005

Abstract

This book outlines an idea of world politics as an activity of thinking and speaking about the conditions of world order. World order is understood not as an arrangement of entities but a complex of variously situated activities conducted by individuals as members of diverse associations of their own. Within contemporary International Relations it entails a theoretical position, neotraditionalism, as a reformulation of the initial 'traditionalist' approach in the wake of rationalism and subsequent reflectivist critique.

Cited authors

Oakeshott Michael

Collingwood R G