Political Science · International Relations
Which thinker of the English School integrated the three philosophical traditions of international politics: Realism, Rationalism and Revolutionism?
AHedley Bull
BMartin Wight ✓ Correct
CHerbert Butterfield
DJames Mayall
Correct answer: (B) Martin Wight — Martin Wight integrated the three traditions.
Explanation
★Martin Wight integrated the three traditions.
★He combined the rationalism of Hugo Grotius, the realism of Hobbes and the revolutionism of Kant.
★This produced a synthetic theory within the English School.
★The three traditions are also called Grotian, Hobbesian and Kantian.
★Hedley Bull built on Wight's work in The Anarchical Society.
★Butterfield and Mayall did not frame this particular synthesis.
★So the integrating thinker is Martin Wight.
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