Foreign Policy and Security Strategy

Foreign Policy and Security Strategy collects works by the late Professor Martin Wight (1913-1972), an historian and scholar of international relations. Wight conducted research on many topics, including British colonial history, European studies, international institutions, and the history of states-systems. He is nonetheless best known for his lectures about the political philosophy of international relations at the London School of Economics (1949-1961) and the University of Sussex (1961-1972). He is widely regarded as an intellectual ancestor and pathbreaker of the

Table of Contents:
Foreword by Paul Schulte 1: Introduction: Martin Wight on Foreign Policy and Security Strategy 2: The Balance of Power in Diplomatic Investigations 3: The Balance of Power and International Order in The Bases of International Order 4: Does Peace Take Care of Itself? 5: The Idea of Neutrality 6: Nationalism and World Order 7: Has Scientific Advance Changed the Nature of International Politics in Kind, Not Merely in Degree? 8: The Political Consequences of Nuclear Weapons 9: War and Peace: The Hobbesian Predicament 10: War and Peace: Nuclear Weapons and Change in International Politics 11: Arms Races 12: Interests of States 13: Interests, Honour and Prestige 14: Is the Commonwealth a Non-Hobbesian Institution? 15: Suggestions for a Projected Study of International Security Organisation 16: From the League to the UN 17: The United Nations Assembly 18: The United Nations General Assembly 19: The Security Council 20: Two Blocs in One World 21: The Power Struggle within the United Nations 22: Review of Henrique de Pinheiro, The World State or the New Order of Common Sense 23: Review of John Middleton Murry, Trust or Perish 24: Review of David Mitrany, A Working Peace System: An Argument for the Functional Development of International Organization (London: National Peace Council, 1946) 25: Review of Ely Culbertson, Must We Fight Russia? (Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Company, 1946) 26: Review of C. E. M. Joad, Conditions of Survival (London: Federal Union, 1946) 27: Review of J. L. Brierly, The Covenant and the Charter (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1947) 28: Review of W. W. Rostow, The American Diplomatic Revolution (Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1947) 29: Review of William C. Bullitt, The Great Globe Itself: A Preface to World Affairs (New York: Scribner, 1946, and London: Macmillan, 1947) 30: Review of Frances Perkins, U.S. Secretary of Labor from 1933-1945, The Roosevelt I Knew, (New York: Viking Press, 1947; London: Hammond, Hammond & Co., 1947) 31: Review of Barbara Ward, Policy for the West (London: Penguin, 1951) 32: Review of John MacLaurin, The United Nations and Power Politics (London: Allen and Unwin, 1952) 33: Review of Hugh Seton-Watson, The Pattern of Communist Revolution (London: Methuen, 1953). (American Edition: From Lenin to Malenkov: The History of World Communism, New York: Praeger, 1953) 34: Review of A. P. Thornton, The Imperial Idea and Its Enemies: A Study in British Power (London: Macmillan, 1959) 35: Review of John H. Herz, International Politics in the Atomic Age (New York: Columbia University Press, 1959). 36: Review of Rupert Emerson, From Empire to Nation: The Rise to Self-Assertion of Asian and African Peoples (Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press; and London, Oxford University Press, 1960) 37: Review of Hugh Seton-Watson,Neither War nor Peace: The Struggle for Power in the Post-War World (London, Methuen, 1960)

About the Author :
Dr. David S. Yost is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California. His books have been published by Harvard University Press, the United States Institute of Peace, and the International Institute for Strategic Studies. He has held fellowships from Fulbright, NATO, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and the United States Institute of Peace, and he was a senior research fellow at the NATO Defense College in Rome in 2004-2007. He earned a Ph.D. in international relations from the University of Southern California. Martin Wight was one of the most important twentieth century British scholars of International Relations. He taught at the London School of Economics (1949-1961) and the University of Sussex (1961-1972), where he served as the founding Dean of the School of European Studies. Wight is often associated with the British Committee on the Theory of International Politics and the so-called English School of International Relations.