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Reimagining Weber: Constructing International Society And The Social Balance Of Power, John M. Hobson, Leonard Seabrooke
Reimagining Weber: Constructing International Society And The Social Balance Of Power, John M. Hobson, Leonard Seabrooke
Leonard Seabrooke
This article ‘reimagines’ Max Weber, who is conventionally thought to be one of realism’s founding fathers. While Weber’s work had various ambiguities and tensions, we suggest that his conception of IR had much in common with liberalism, and especially the English School. Nevertheless, our ‘reimagining’ of Weber augments in a sustained and particular way an area of analysis that has not been consistently or sufficiently developed within the English School; namely an emphasis on the social legitimacy of a particular form of state–society complex that is constitutive of international society. In contrast to Hedley Bull, who viewed sovereignty and diplomacy …