Martin Wight
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English international relations scholar
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Robert James Martin Wight was one of the foremost British scholars of international relations in the twentieth century. He was the author of Power Politics , as well as the seminal essay "Why Is There No International Theory?" . 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.
Martin Wight's Published Works
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Published Works
- Power politics (1978) (376)
- Systems of states (1977) (299)
- Diplomatic Investigations: Essays in the Theory of International Politics (1966) (221)
- Why is there no International Theory? (1960) (184)
- The New Science of Politics: An Introduction (1955) (62)
- The Gold Coast Legislative Council (1947) (45)
- The Development of the Legislative Council, 1606-1945 (1946) (24)
- International Legitimacy (1972) (22)
- THE CHURCH, RUSSIA AND THE WEST1 (1948) (18)
- British colonial constitutions, 1947 (1952) (16)
- Man of Independence (1952) (13)
- Political Theory: The Foundations of Twentieth-Century Political Thought (1960) (10)
- Brutus in Foreign PolicyThe Memoirs of Sir Anthony Eden (1960) (9)
- Dialectical Materialism: A Historical and Systematic Survey of Philosophy in the Soviet Union (1959) (9)
- The White House Papers of Harry L. Hopkins: an Intimate History (1949) (8)
- Political Realism and the Crisis of World Politics: An American Approach to Foreign Policy (1961) (7)
- Toynbee's Approach to World Politics (1960) (5)
- From Empire to Nation: The Rise to Self-Assertion of Asian and African Peoples (1961) (5)
- The White House Papers of Harry L. Hopkins: an Intimate History. Vol. 2 January 1942-July 1945 (1950) (4)
- Dilemmas of Politics (1959) (4)
- Neither War Nor Peace: The Struggle for Power in the Post-War World (1960) (4)
- Is the commonwealth a non‐Hobbesian institution? (1978) (3)
- Arnold Toynbee: An Appreciation (1976) (3)
- Charter of the United Nations. Commentary and Documents (1947) (3)
- Diplomatic History 1713–1933 (1947) (3)
- The Lie about the West: A response to Professor Toynbee's challenge (1954) (3)
- The Use of History and the Idea of History (1947) (2)
- Men of Stress: Three Dynamic Interpretations (1949) (2)
- Christian Pacifism (1936) (2)
- Discerning the Signs of the Times: Sermons for To-day and To-morrow (1947) (2)
- The American Diplomatic Revolution (1947) (2)
- Diplomacy in a Changing World (1960) (1)
- Politics in Pitcairn, and Other Essays (1948) (1)
- A Bibliography of the Works in English of Arnold Toynbee 1910–1954 (1956) (1)
- Liberty in the Modern World: Being the Third Lectures on the Chancellor Dunning Trust, delivered at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, 1952 (1953) (1)
- Persuasion or Force (1947) (1)
- American Nationalism: An Interpretative Essay (1958) (1)
- Britain's Road to Recovery (1950) (1)
- The European Spirit (1949) (1)
- Conditions of Survival (1947) (0)
- Political Messianism: The Romantic Phase (1962) (0)
- Correspondence: Christian Pacifism (1936) (0)
- Inside U.S.A (1948) (0)
- The Great Globe Itself (1947) (0)
- Politics and Culture in International History (1962) (0)
- Nationalism and Internationalism (1948) (0)
- Acton's Political Philosophy: an Analysis and Essays on Church and State (1953) (0)
- A Working Peace System (1947) (0)
- The Era of Atomic Power and The Era of Atomic Power: A Quaker Reply (1947) (0)
- International Non-Governmental Organizations: Their Purposes, Methods, and Accomplishments (1952) (0)
- The Atlantic Pact (1950) (0)
- A Christian Year Book (1947) (0)
- The Record of American Diplomacy (1948) (0)
- Constitutional Laws of the Commonwealth@@@British Colonial Constitutions, 1947 (1954) (0)
- The Roosevelt I Knew (1948) (0)
- The American Democracy: a Commentary and an Interpretation (1949) (0)
- United Nations Textbook: Texts of Important U.N. Documents with Annotations, including Constitution of International Labour Organization and Texts of Modern Regional Pacts (1951) (0)
- Machiavellism: the Doctrine of Raison d'setat and its Place in Modern History (1958) (0)
- Ethics in a World of Power: The Political Ideas of Friedrich Meinecke (1959) (0)
- Trust or Perish (1946) (0)
- The Poverty of Historicism (1958) (0)
- The United Nations: Three Years of Achievement. United States Department of State publication 3255 (1949) (0)
- The New Authoritarianism: Conway Memorial Lecture delivered at Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, W.C.I, on 22 March, 1949 (1950) (0)
- The Place of Classics in a New University. (1963) (0)
- Basic Documents of International Relations and Droit International et Histoire Diplomatique (1952) (0)
- The Covenant and the Charter (1947) (0)
- First Principles. I. World Government: Dream or Necessity? (1947) (0)
- The World State Or The New Order of Common Sense (1946) (0)
- Must We Fight Russia (1946) (0)
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