«INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY» AND «GLOBAL BRITAIN». SOME PRACTICAL ASPECT OF APPLYING THE CONCEPT ENGLISH SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
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Mironov Victor V. doktor istoricheskih nauk, docent, professor kafedry istorii i teorii mezhdunarodnyh otnosheniy
Omsk State University
Omsk, Russian Federation
Abstract:
This article is devoted to the possibilities of applying the concept of international society to the analysis individual problems in International relations and Foreign policy of the modern Great Britain. The English school of international relations recognized by modern science as a vivid example of a kind of autonomous theoretical approach to international politics. The ideas of the school began to develop in the middle of the last century, acquired the character of a scientific concept by the end of the 1970s and today they have been developing for three generations of researchers. The concept of international society was a base for the analysis of the largest international institutions carried out by H. Bull during the work of the British Committee for the Study of International Politics. H. Bull considered diplomacy, the balance of power, the management of international relations through the interaction of great powers, international law and war to be among the fundamental institutions that ensure the functioning of international society. Subsequently, the development of this thematic line by representatives of the English school made it possible to talk about the formation of the British version of the institutional study of international politics. This theoretical approach can be applied to the study of a number of problems of modern international relations, including in relation to the problems of studying modern British foreign policy. Demonstration of these possibilities of the concept of international society is the purpose of the article. Most of the supporters of the English School noted the erosion and transformation of the institutions of international society in the second half of the 20th - early 21st centuries. The balance of power lost its importance by the middle of the twentieth century as a central international institution in the opinion of modern representatives of the school. The development of international law characterized by contradictory trends. The inclusion of war among the institutions of international society raise questions among supporters of the concept. Diplomacy has undergone significant modernization. The consequence of all these processes is the growth of great power principles in modern international politics, which well demonstrated by the idea of «global Britain», as well as the country's exit from the European Union. Thus, the concept of international society once again proves its relevance and political importance. The English School of International Relations retains its heuristic potential and remains open to dialogue with the theory of international regimes in the United States.
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Mironov V.V., (2021), «INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY» AND «GLOBAL BRITAIN». SOME PRACTICAL ASPECT OF APPLYING THE CONCEPT ENGLISH SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS. History and Modern Perspectives, 2 => 57-64.
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Keywords:
English school of International relations, H. Bull, International institutions, Brexit.


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