Political Science · International Relations
UGC NET January 2017 Political Science
Who of the following belongs to the British School of Realism?
AReinhold Niebuhr
BNJ Spykman
CQuincy Wright
DHedley Bull ✓ Correct
Correct answer: (D) Hedley Bull — The scholar belonging to the British, or English, School is Hedley Bull.
Explanation
★The scholar belonging to the British, or English, School is Hedley Bull.
★Hedley Bull wrote 'The Anarchical Society' (1977), the classic statement of the English School.
★The English School sees world politics as an anarchical society of states bound by shared rules and institutions.
★It stresses ideas, international law, diplomacy and order rather than material power alone.
★Bull developed the notion of an international society lying between pure anarchy and world government.
★Bull led the traditionalist side against Morton Kaplan's behaviouralism in the great methods debate of international relations.
★Reinhold Niebuhr was an American Christian realist, not a member of this school.
★N.J. Spykman was an American geopolitical realist known for the Rimland theory.
★Quincy Wright was an American scholar famous for his large work 'A Study of War' (1942).
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