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Dr. Jan St\u00f6ckmann<\/em><\/p>\n Dissertation, University of Oxford<\/strong><\/p>\n Prompted by the horrors of the First World War, a group of pioneering scholars, politicians, and\u00a0diplomats began to establish International Relations (IR) as an\u00a0academic discipline while simultaneously\u00a0pursuing practical goals in global politics. Throughout the inter-war period, they advised governments,\u00a0drafted treaties, and\u00a0managed international organisations alongside their role as university lecturers and\u00a0researchers. Among this eclectic group were figures such as German lawyer\u00a0Albrecht Mendelssohn\u00a0Bartholdy, American historian James T. Shotwell, and British feminist-pacifist Helena Swanwick. They\u00a0collaborated across Europe, the\u00a0United States, and soon the entire globe, inspired by cosmopolitan\u00a0ideas, yet ready to represent their national governments. By engaging with contemporary affairs\u2014from\u00a0the creation of the League of Nations through to the crises of the 1930s in Manchuria, Abyssinia, and\u00a0Czechoslovakia\u2014they defined themselves as\u00a0academic authorities as well as political advisors. By 1940,\u00a0the architects of International Relations had not only established a new academic discipline, but made\u00a0substantial contributions to practical politics and, ultimately, the way we think about war and peace until\u00a0today.<\/p>\n This project uses their papers, scattered across more than two dozen archives in six\u00a0countries, as a lens to examine the formation of IR scholarship. It\u00a0provides the first international\u00a0history of the discipline and challenges several assumptions about the origins of the field that still\u00a0survive in textbooks today.\u00a0Specifically, it shows that IR emerged\u00a0during\u00a0rather than after the First World\u00a0War; it incorporates neglected actors outside the anglophone world; it recovers women\u00a0and feminist\u00a0political thought; and it reveals how IR scholars contributed as quasi-diplomats to a number of\u00a0important treaties during the inter-war period. As a\u00a0result, it argues, the traditional history of early IR\u00a0scholarship\u2014the so called \u2018great debate\u2019 between \u2018idealist\u2019 and \u2018realist\u2019 thinkers\u2014is not only inaccurate,\u00a0as recent revisions have shown. It misses the key point that the architects of IR were not usually\u00a0interested in theory but considered themselves to be designers of diplomatic order in the real world.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dr. Jan St\u00f6ckmann Dissertation, University of Oxford Prompted by the horrors of the First World War, a group of pioneering scholars, politicians, and\u00a0diplomats began to establish International Relations (IR) as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":147,"featured_media":0,"parent":618,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1326","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-forschung"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsu-hh.de\/nng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsu-hh.de\/nng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsu-hh.de\/nng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsu-hh.de\/nng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/147"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsu-hh.de\/nng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1326"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsu-hh.de\/nng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1520,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsu-hh.de\/nng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1326\/revisions\/1520"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsu-hh.de\/nng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsu-hh.de\/nng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsu-hh.de\/nng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsu-hh.de\/nng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}