“The English School in International Relations”

Peter Wilson
Senior Lecturer in International Relations, Department of International Relations, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), U.K.


Part of the International Relations: Not Only Realism Seminar Series

Peter Wilson is senior lecturer in International Relations at the LSE, where he has taught since 1990. He holds degrees in International Relations from the Universities of Keele and Southampton, and the LSE. His main fields of expertise are international relations theory and the history of international political thought. He is best known for his work on inter-war idealism/liberal internationalism and the international thought of E. H. Carr.

He is the author or editor of four books including Thinkers of the Twenty Years’ Crisis (Oxford University Press, 1995) and The International Theory of Leonard Woolf (Palgrave, 2003). His Classics of International Relations: Essays in Criticism and Appreciation, edited with Henrik Bliddal and Casper Sylvest, will be published by Routledge in 2013. He has published a number of papers in leading academic journals including ‘The Myth of the First Great Debate’ (Review of International Studies, 1998), ‘Manning’s Quasi-Masterpiece: The Nature of International Society Revisited’ (The Round Table, 2004), and ‘Gilbert Murray and International Relations: Hellenism, Liberalism and International Intellectual Cooperation as a Path to Peace’ (Review of International Studies, 2011). His ‘The English School Meets the Chicago School: The Case for a Grounded Theory of International Institutions’ will be published in International Studies Review in 2013. From 2001-2011 he was editor of the Palgrave History of International Thought Series.


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