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Title: | In search of Karl Polanyi’s international relations theory |
Authors: | Dale, G |
Keywords: | Karl Polanyi;International politics;World order;1910 - 1940 |
Issue Date: | 2015 |
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
Citation: | Review of International Studies, pp. 1 - 24, (2015) |
Abstract: | Karl Polanyi is principally known as an economic historian and a theorist of international political economy. His theses are commonly encountered in debates concerning globalisation, regionalism, regulation and deregulation, and neoliberalism. But the standard depiction of his ideas is based upon a highly restricted corpus of his work: essentially, his published writings, in English, from the 1940s and 1950s. Drawing upon a broader range of Polanyi’s work in Hungarian, German, and English, this article examines his less well-known analyses of international politics and world order. It sketches the main lineaments of Polanyi’s international thought from the 1910s until the mid-1940s, charting his evolution from Wilsonian liberal, via debates within British pacifism, towards a position close to E. H. Carr’s realism. It reconstructs the dialectic of universalism and regionalism in Polanyi’s prospectus for postwar international order, with a focus upon his theory of ‘tame empires’ and its extension by neo-Polanyian theorists of the ‘new regionalism’ and European integration. It explores the tensions and contradictions in Polanyi’s analysis, and, finally, it hypothesises that the failure of his postwar predictions provides a clue as to why his research on international relations dried up in the 1950s. |
URI: | http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/11638 |
DOI: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0260210515000273 |
ISSN: | 0260-2105 1469-9044 |
Appears in Collections: | Dept of Social and Political Sciences Research Papers |
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