Overview
- Considers the influence of Marxism on the early development of International Relations as a discipline
- Contributes to surveys on Marxian inspired theories of imperialism
- Establishes solid ground for future research on Marxism and the IR intellectuals of the 20th century
Part of the book series: The Palgrave Macmillan History of International Thought (PMHIT)
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About this book
This book investigates to what extent and in what ways Marxist writings and precepts on imperialism informed the so-called idealist stage of International Relations (IR). Though the formative years of International Relations coincide with a vibrant period in Marxist political thought, Marxism is strikingly absent from the historiography of the discipline. Building on the work of revisionist scholars, the book reconstructs the writings of five benchmark IR thinkers. Villanueva analyzes the cases of John Hobson, Henry Brailsford, Leonard Woolf, Harold Laski and Norman Angell to explore the influence that Marxism played in their thinking, and in the “idealist years” of the discipline more generally. He ultimately demonstrates that, although Marxist thought has been neglected by mainstream IR disciplinary historians, it played a significant role in the discipline’s early development. As such, this book both challenges the exclusion of Marxist thought from the mainstream disciplinary histories of IR and contributes to a deeper understanding of the role it played in early 20th century IR theory.
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Jose Ricardo Villanueva Lira is Lecturer and Head of Department at the Institute of International Studies, Universidad del Mar, Mexico.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Marxism and the Origins of International Relations
Book Subtitle: A Hidden History
Authors: José Ricardo Villanueva Lira
Series Title: The Palgrave Macmillan History of International Thought
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-79668-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-79667-9Published: 21 October 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-79670-9Published: 22 October 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-79668-6Published: 20 October 2021
Series ISSN: 2690-5825
Series E-ISSN: 2634-5226
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 175
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: International Relations, International Relations Theory, Political Philosophy, History, general, Political History