On World Politics: R.G. Collingwood, Michael Oakeshott and Neotraditionalism in International Relations

This book outlines an idea of world politics as an activity of thinking and speaking about the conditions of world order. World order is understood not as an arrangement of entities but a complex of variously situated activities conducted by individuals as members of diverse associations of their own. Within contemporary International Relations it entails a theoretical position, neotraditionalism, as a reformulation of the initial 'traditionalist' approach in the wake of rationalism and subsequent reflectivist critique.

ALEXANDER ASTROV is Assistant Professor in International Relations at the Central European University in Budapest. His research interests include International Relations Theory, International Political Theory, Classical Political Theory, the Scottish Enlightenment and British Idealism.