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Edward Carr is seen to this day one of the most important theoreticians of the study of international relations. Despite the fact that his work has been written before the start of the Second World War, he was among the first scholars and analysts to take into account the theory of international relations as a paradigm and afterwards as a science.
One of his most important works in this area and perhaps the one that provided the backbone of the research conducted in international relations in modern times is Carr's "The Twenty Years' Crisis" first published in 1939 with a second issue in 1946. The subject of the book cannot be presented as a chapter-by-chapter presentation especially given the nature of the work that includes a significant role of analysis and interpretation. More precisely, the book in itself represents the first and most eloquent attempt to argue on the role of politics and utopian belief in the period between the two world wars and how this utopian approach eventually contributed significantly to the outbreak of the Second World War.
In order to consider the full contribution Carr had to the study of international...
Carr was one of the most erudite students of the Cambridge University at the time of the First World War and this experience has enabled him the access to a severe yet worthy education that in turn connected him to the realities of the British political life. It must be pointed out that at the time the British Empire had a rather distant approach to European politics in the sense that after the end of the First World War Britain encouraged more the relations with the United States and chose to have limited if any contact with that of the European powers, among which France and Germany. However, the implication Britain had in European affairs was more in the sense of an utopian approach rather than a realistic one (Kissinger, 1995).
Given the background both as a scholar and as a fine observer of internal and external affairs, Carr became an astute critic of the indulgent political approach Britain and France had towards the newly revived Germany. More precisely,…
References
Carr, E.H. The Twenty Years' Crisis. 1919-1939. London: MacMillan, 1946.
Kissinger, Henry. Diplomacy. London: Simon & Schuster, 1995.
However, Carr is not advocating that we adopt an amoral set of principles when dealing with international politics. Rather, he does present a clear case for including underlying moral tones in how international relations are constructed and executed. Yet, these only have a certain part to play. Exaggerating that portion through unrealistic utopian ideology proves to lead to the failure of the peace attempts during the twenty years Carr
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