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Martin Wight and the theory of international relations: The Second Martin Wight Memorial Lecture*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 October 2009

Hedley Bull
Hedley Bull
Affiliation:
Professor of International Relations, The Australian National University, Canberra
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THERE is no lecture which I could feel more honoured to have been asked to give than one which commemorates the name of Martin Wight. Just twenty years ago I made the same journey I have just made – from Oxford to the London School of Economics – to take up a position as assistant lecturer in the Department of International Relations. I had not done a course of any kind in International Relations, nor made any serious study of it, and as I arrived in Houghton Street I wondered how I was to go about teaching the subject and even whether it existed at all.

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Research Article
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Review of International Studies , Volume 2 , Issue 2 , July 1976 , pp. 101 - 116
Copyright
Copyright © British International Studies Association 1976

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References

page 101 note 1. Sir Herbert Butterfield, Raison D'Etat. The Inaugural Martin Wight Memorial Lecture.

page 102 note 1. Wight, Martin, Power Politics, Royal Institute of International Affairs (London, 1946).Google Scholar

page 103 note 1. The Development of the Legislative Council 1606–1946 (London,1946).Google Scholar

page 106 note 1. Busnett, , Our Time, vol. iGoogle Scholar, bk. II, ch. I.

page 107 note 1. See Butterfield, H. and Wight, M. (ed.), Diplomatic Investigations (London, 1967), pp. 89–131.Google Scholar

page 108 note 1. See James, A. M. (ed.), The Bases of International Order. Essays Presented to C. A. W. Manning (London, 1973).Google Scholar

page 108 note 2. See Toynbee, Arnold (ed.), The World in March 1939 (London, 1952).Google Scholar

page 109 note 1. ‘Christian Commentary’, talk on the B.B.G Home Service, 29 Oct. 1948.

page 110 note 1. Diplomatic Investigations, op. cit. pp. 33–34.

page 110 note 2. For Wight's discussion of the inevitability of war see ‘War and International Polities’, The Listener, 13 Oct. 1953.

page 110 note 3. See “Christian Commentary’, op. cit.

page 111 note 1. See Otto von Gierke, Natural Law and the Theory of Society IJOO to 1860 (trans. Ernest Barker), Beacon Press, p. 85.

page 113 note 1. Diplomatic Investigations, op. cit. ch. 1.

page 113 note 2. See Brian Porter's unpublished paper, ‘Martin Wight's “International Theory”: Some Reflections’.

page 114 note 1. Diplomatic Investigations, op. cit. p. 33.

page 114 note 2. Ibid. p. 32.

page 114 note 3. Ibid. p. 33. 4.

page 114 note 4. Ibid. p. 102.