Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowlegements -- Introduction -- 1 The idea of 'The English School' as a historical construct -- The English School debate in the 1980s -- Roy Jones (1981) on the English School -- Suganami (1983) on the British institutionalists -- Grader (1988) and Wilson (1989) on the English School -- Development in the 1990s -- Buzan (1993) and Little (1995, 2000) -- Dunne (1998) on the English School -- The nature of the English School -- The argument of the English School -- The structural study of international society -- Against the domestic analog: Manning, Wight and Bull -- Manning on international society -- From Manning to Bull -- International system, international society and world society -- The functional study of international society -- Bull on basic values -- Pluralism and solidarism -- The relative efficacy of the sovereign states system -- Wheeler's solidarism -- The historical study of international society -- Conclusion -- The English School on 'International Relations as an intellectual pursuit' -- History, historical knowledge and IR -- Science, Sociology and International Relations -- Norms, values and International Relations -- English School research projects -- Progress and its limits: system, society and community in world politics -- Beyond strategic relations -- The strengths and weaknesses of pluralist international society -- Towards solidarism in International Relations -- The expansion of international society -- Conclusion -- Cosmopolitanism and the harm principle in world politics -- Kant's radicalized rationalism -- The harm principle in international relations -- Applications of the harm principle in world politics -- Conclusion -- The sociology of states-systems -- Two concepts of historical sociology.

Towards a sociology of cosmopolitan harm conventions -- Modernity and progress -- Conclusion -- The good international citizen and the transformation of international society -- Pluralism and beyond -- The solidarist ethic -- Ethical challenges in relations between solidarists and pluralists -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.