I was greatly encouraged by the present proposal to relaunch the concentrated dialogue of the British Committee for the Theory of International Politics, and by the positive response of the many leading scholars listed in Barry Buzan's article ‘The English School: an Underexploited Resource in IR’.
The working methods of the original Committee are well summarized in Buzan's article, and those methods and the scope of its enquiries are described more fully in Tim Dunne's most useful history of the English School of IR, Inventing International Society.Tim Dunne, Inventing International Society: A History of the English School (London: Macmillan, 1998). There is thus no need to look back over them here.