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Article: Inventing International Society: A History of the English School.(Review)
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- American Political Science Review
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- September 1, 2000
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Inventing International Society: A History of the English School. By Tim Dunne. London: Macmillan in association with St. Antony's College, Oxford; 1998; New York: St. Martin's, 1998. 207p. $65.00.
The classical international society approach to the study of international relations, that is, the "English School," owes its origins to the financial generosity of the Rockefeller Foundation. In 1954 Dean Rusk and Kenneth W. Thompson organized a group of American journalists, academics, and Department of State officials to investigate theoretical aspects of international relations. In 1958, at the suggestion of Thompson, a similar committee of British scholars and ...