The Times and Appeasement

Foster, Alan Dean

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“…Historically, this link between judgements about the causal effect of the concert arrangement of the nineteenth century on great power peace and the concept of spheres of influence was not only confined to scholarship. During the Second World War, when scholars such as E.H. Carr (and even Lewis Namier who had famously rejected Chamberlin’s policy of appeasing Nazi Germany in the lead-up to the war) wrote about the importance of spheres of influence for the stability of the post-war order in editorials in The Times , they drew on the European Concert for inspiration (Foster, 1981: 451). The wartime and immediate post-war editorial line in The Times as it related to the future role of the Soviet Union in Europe had a clear preference for a recognised Soviet sphere in Eastern Europe.…”

Section: The English School Great Power Rights and Spheres Of Influmentioning

confidence: 99%

Interpreting great power rights in international society: Debating China’s right to a sphere of influence

Zala

2020

Journal of International Political Theory

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The special rights and responsibilities of the great powers have traditionally been treated as a key component – even a primary institution – of international society in the English School literature. Recent interpretivist work has focused on the meanings of special responsibilities in contemporary international society with far less scholarly attention being given to the corollary of this – special rights. This article uses an interpretivist approach to attempt to uncover what recent debates over China’s right or otherwise to a sphere of influence in East Asia tells us about understandings of great power rights in contemporary international society. The argument advanced is that if Beijing’s right to a sphere of influence is successfully rejected by the rest of international society without repudiating its status as a great power more broadly, China will indeed be a great power without historical precedent.

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Section: The English School Great Power Rights and Spheres Of Influmentioning

confidence: 99%