Radicals and Reactionaries in Twentieth-Century International Thought

Overview: The history of international thought is a flourishing field, but it has tended to focus on Anglo-American realist and liberal thinkers. This book moves beyond the Anglosphere and beyond realism and liberalism. It analyses the work of thinkers from continental Europe and Asia with radical and reactionary agendas quite different from the mainstream. Front Matter....Pages i-xi Introduction: Radicals and Reactionaries in Twentieth-Century International Thought....Pages 1-15 Geopolitics and Nationalism: Interpreting Friedrich Ratzel in Italian, 1898–1916....Pages 17-41 A Forgotten Theorist of International Relations: Kurt Riezler and His Fundamentals of World Politics of 1914....Pages 43-73 Democratic Socialism and International Thought in Interwar Britain....Pages 75-100 The IR That Dare Not Speak Its Name: The French Extreme (and Not so Extreme) Right in the 1930s and Its Lessons from and to the History of Thought in International Relations....Pages 101-122 Prussianism, Hitlerism, Realism: The German Legacy in British International Thought*....Pages 123-143 Toward Eurafrica! Fascism, Corporativism, and Italy’s Colonial Expansion....Pages 145-169 Two Regional Orders in the East and the West: E. H. Carr’s “New Europe” and the Japanese “Greater East Asian Community....Pages 171-189 “Mephistopheles in a Saville Row Suit”: V. K. Krishna Menon and the West....Pages 191-216 Back Matter....Pages 217-224 The history of international thought is a burgeoning field in International Relations, but so far it has mainly concentrated on the work of American and British "realists" and "idealists." This book breaks new ground, moving beyond Anglophone thinkers and the mainstream traditions to examine the work of radicals and reactionaries from across the world. It includes original chapters on German conservatives and Italian socialists, Labour Party radicals and French fascists, as well as Italian and Japanese imperialists and Indian anti-colonialists. It explores the transnational transmission of theories and traditions of international thought, as well as their reception, adaptation, and rejection by thinkers across Europe and Asia during the course of the twentieth century