English School

Question 1

What does the English school focus on?

Answer 1

The role of international society: what it is and what does it create?

Question 2

What do realists see as international society?

Answer 2

System of states driven by security concerns and balance of power

Question 3

What do liberals see as international society?

Answer 3

Universal values, democracy can create global peace, cooperation

Question 4

What does the English school see as missing from realist and liberal interpretations of international society?

Answer 4

They’re not full histories of international society, we need to look at how Western society has incorporated the rest of the world over time

Question 5

How far do the English school think international society has extended?

Answer 5

International society is a group of states which fill a number of requirements
ie to join the EU you have to be a democracy

Question 6

What do the English school see as the three key dimensions of IR theory?

Answer 6

International society

International system

World society

Question 7

What is the international order?

Answer 7

Associated with international society and the norms and rules which create security
Clashes with the idea that human rights should be prioritised

Question 8

What is international justice?

Answer 8

Associated with world society and human rights

relates to universal morality

Question 9

English school v realism?(2)

Answer 9

They agree on the concept of the international system being about power politics

But English school put states and institutions at the centre of IR theory