Co-Dependence In the Pluralist-Solidarist Debate
The English School begins with Martin Wight’s three traditions that define the international sphere. The first tradition is the international system, associated with realism, and is philosophically backed by Hobbes and Machiavelli. The second tradition is the international society, which has Hugo Grotius as its philosophical patron, and is often referred to as rationalism. Finally, there is the world society, also referred to as revolutionism, which is supported by Kant (Buzan 2001: 474). The English School’s primary thrust, as Buzan points out, has been the rationalism (Grotian) tradition and the development of an international society (2001: 476). The English School uniquely occupies both a middle ground in IR discourse, between realism and liberalism, as well as provides a grand theory of IR. As Tim Dunne claims, it “purports to offer an account of IR which combines theory and history, morality and power, agency and structure” (2010: 136; emphasis...