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Engskul54: Created page with "This article attempts to sketch the broad parameters of the English school\\\'s method of International Relations. Rather than linking the English school to a via media and, part..."

This article attempts to sketch the broad parameters of the English school\\\'s method of International Relations. Rather than linking the English school to a via media and, particularly, to the idea of international society, it\\\'s argued that the school, from an early stage, has been committed to developing a pluralistic approach to the topic, expressed in both ontological and methodological terms. As a result, members of the English school not just distinguished ontologically between international systems, international societies and world societies, however they have also tacitly acknowledged that different methodologies have to grasp the distinctive features of each of these ontological units. International systems are related to recurrent patterns of behaviour that may be identified most effectively using positivist tools of analysis. By contrast, international societies have to be explored using interpretivist or hermeneutic methods that target the language that lies behind the rules, institutions, interests and values that constitute any society. Finally, world society are only able to meaningfully be discussed by drawing on critical theory that identifies the direction that the society needs to consume order for human values to be realized. Whereas monists desire to privilege a particular method and ontology, the English school can be seen to favour a pluralist approach that aims to reveal the various cross-currents that prevent International Relations motionless in any one direction.

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