International Relations and the Labour Party: Intellectuals by Lucian Ashworth

By Lucian Ashworth

From 1918 to 1945 the British Labour social gathering labored heavily with the most favorite names in diplomacy (IR) scholarship. via such constructions because the 'Advisory Committee on overseas Questions', educational IR experts have been instrumental within the building of Labour overseas coverage, getting ready a wealth of memoranda, stories and pamphlets for the Party.Here Lucian Ashworth examines the an important function performed via IR theorists. He places the foreign theories of 5 key writers - Leonard Woolf, H.N. Brailsford, Philip Noel Baker, Norman Angell and David Mitrany - into the context of either the advance of Labour's foreign coverage and the evolution of the overseas setting among the wars. He demonstrates the inadequacy of the present interpretation inside IR of the inter-war interval and argues the obsession with the anachronistic department among realism and idealism - phrases that had varied connotations prior to international battle II - mask either the very diverse debates that have been occurring on the time, and the altering overseas panorama of the inter-war interval itself.

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The concept of idealism also underpins a Whiggish version of history that ignores the complexities and changes that have occurred over the twenty years of the inter-war period in order to construct a simplified history that serves modern concerns. In fact, there seems to be no reason for keeping the term idealism in the IR lexicon at all. It is, to use Hayek’s phrase, a weasel word with so many contradictory meanings that its single useful purpose seems to be to obscure rather than reveal. 96 Worryingly, recent progressives seem to have colluded in this process.

In fact, there seems to be no reason for keeping the term idealism in the IR lexicon at all. It is, to use Hayek’s phrase, a weasel word with so many contradictory meanings that its single useful purpose seems to be to obscure rather than reveal. 96 Worryingly, recent progressives seem to have colluded in this process. Ironically, one of the causes of the poor understanding of the inter-war period amongst IR scholars is a book written by one of the greatest and most popular left-wing historians of the twentieth century.

143 Some members of the Advisory Committee continued to serve on the Executive’s International Sub-Committee, with Philip Noel Baker and Hugh Dalton being particularly active. Hugh Dalton also organised informal symposia on foreign affairs during this interim, in which Leonard Woolf was involved. The Advisory Committee was reconstituted in 1944, with Philip Noel Baker in the Chair and Leonard Woolf as Secretary. After Labour won its landslide victory on 5 July 1945 the Advisory Committee remained suspended, pending the re-appointment and re-constitution of its membership.

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