Barbara Wootton, Friedrich Hayek and the debate on democratic federalism in the 1940s

Rosenboim, Or

doi:10.1080/07075332.2013.871320

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“…Some seek to challenge common perceptions of foundational figures in international thought. The history of British international thought has also received great attention, centring in particular on British liberal internationalists, their theories of world order and Britain's role in it (Hall and Hill 2010;Hall 2012;Holthaus 2014;Sylvest 2014;Rosenboim 2014). While scholars have provided engaging studies of the international aspects of major political philosophers such as Grotius, Hobbes, Gentilli and Kant, we would argue that international thought should not be extrapolated from the canon of political thought, or proceed by examining what 'great political thinkers' said about world politics and international affairs (Molloy 2017;Bain 2016;Costa López 2020).…”

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International Political Thought and Historical International Relations

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Hartnett²

2021

Routledge Handbook of Historical International Relations

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This paper critically surveys recent developments in the subfield of Historical International Relations (IR). It looks at the evolution of Historical IR as a particular approach to the study of IR, and examines its development through competing approaches offered by contemporary scholars. The paper suggests that this subfield provides an insightful and innovative branch of scholarship in contemporary IR, which can pave the way to new futures of the discipline. In particular, the chapter explores in depth the various interactions between Historical IR and International Political Thought (IPT), which has recently gained greater prominence in the discipline of History. The paper argues that the dialogue between these two approaches to the study of the international -Historical IR and IPT -can be mutually enriching, but also embodies some methodological limits. Finally, the paper offers some ways forward in the intersection of Historical IR and IPT.

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Section: International Political Thoughtmentioning

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International Political Thought and Historical International Relations

Rosenboim¹,

Hartnett²

2021

Routledge Handbook of Historical International Relations

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“…18 Wootton was a leading figure of the Federal Union who advocated a 'transnational federation' that meant the establishment of a supranational government 'with limited functions'. 19…”

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Debating federal Europe in the British Parliament, c. 1940–49

Haapala

Häkkinen

2017

European Review of History: Revue européenne d'histoire

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Federalism, or the fear of it, worked as a catalyst in the British referendum on Brexit in June 2016. In this paper we focus on the pre-European integration context and ask what kind of an alternative federalism was seen to afford in British politics before and after the Second World War. We limit our discussion to parliamentary debates, which have only rarely been used as primary sources for studying European integration history. The British Parliament was one of the key political arenas for debates on foreign policy, not just in terms of informing the party lines but also guiding the public discussion. In the early part of the 1940s the British federalist movement was able to generate political debate on the issue and gain the attention of many leading politicians. We argue that the approach to the use of the concept was politically charged but remained open to various context-based interpretations, which did not eventually lead to any concrete proposals. During the latter part of the 1940s the majority of British MPs were open to different ways of creating unity in Europe. The emphasis on national sovereignty, however, continued. As a result 'federalism', attached to structures for unity, gave way to more pragmatic political solutions.

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“…There is an extensive literature on the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (Blackwell, 2004;Plastas, 2011;Confortini, 2012). Historians have written on Germaine de Staël (Sluga, 2015), Emily Greene Balch (Jacobs, 2007) and Barbara Wootton (Rosenboim, 2014).…”

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Women and the History of International Thought

Owens

2018

International Studies Quarterly

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Did few, if any, historical women think very deeply about international relations? Existing surveys and anthologies convey just this impression; women in the past did not think seriously about international politics. This article provides evidence of the scale of historical women's exclusion, analyzing sixty texts in the history of international thought and disciplinary history. It also begins the process of remedying this exclusion, mapping a new agenda for research on the history of women's international thought. Existing work in feminist historiography and new archival research suggests that a diverse array of historical women thought deeply about international relations, but their intellectual contributions have been obscured, even actively erased. To illustrate what can be gained by pursuing a research agenda on historical women's international thought, the article reveals a neglected but at the time extremely important figure in what might be called 'white women's IR', the influential scholar of colonial administration, Lucy Philip Mair. Recent years have witnessed an exciting and cross-disciplinary revival of scholarship on the history of international thought and discipline of International Relations (IR) (Armitage, 2013; Leira and Carvalho, 2015). Yet there are currently no histories of women in the early years of IR, nor a substantial body of scholarship challenging the neglect of women in the 'canon' of international thought. Survey texts and anthologies are still published as if women in the past did not think seriously about international politics. What explains the neglect of historical women? It might be assumed that there simply were no women in the earliest years of the new science that emerged at the end of the nineteenthcentury. Perhaps few, if any, women in the past thought very deeply about relations between peoples, empires, and states. If so, then women's absence from the relevant histories would not require much further examination. The more urgent task would be to decrease the citation gap that disadvantages contemporary women, people of color, and scholars from the Global South, as suggested in the author guidelines for this journal (ISQ, 2017). But what if a diverse array of historical women, that is women writing before the late twentieth-century, had thought deeply about international relations? Recent efforts to address the citation gap for contemporary scholars can do little to recover and analyze historical work that remains unknown. There may even be a persistent connection between the absence of a recognized and respected history of women's thought on international politics and their status in the field today. Robert Vitalis (2015) has recently argued that this is the case for African-American women and men.  This article builds on conversations initiated at a CHASE-German Historical Institute workshop in 2015, 'Languages of the Global: Women and International Political Thought', led by the historians Katharina Rietzler, Valeska Huber, and Tamson Pietsch, and continued at a BISA...

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Barbara Wootton, Friedrich Hayek and the debate on democratic federalism in the 1940s

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International Political Thought and Historical International Relations

International Political Thought and Historical International Relations

Debating federal Europe in the British Parliament, c. 1940–49

Women and the History of International Thought

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