Forum on the English School

Abstract

Over the course of its twenty-five year history, the Review of International Studies has been an important outlet for articles that sought to define an English School.As have other European-based journals, particularly Millennium, Cooperation and Conflict, and more recently the European Journal of International Relations. At the time of the first volume of the British Journal of International Relations—as it was then called—in 1975, there was a growing sense of a divided discipline. Alienation from the agenda being put forward in the US was compounded by greater introspection about what, if anything, unified the International Relations community in Britain. Early attempts to advance a different agenda were published in the BJIR by (among others) writers such as Hedley Bull, Alan James and R.J. Vincent.