Faiths of the Founding Fathers. By David L. Holmes. New York: OxfordUniversity Press, 2006. 225 pp. np.

2007 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 151-152
Author(s):  
D. M. Douglas
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Founding Fathers

Historiography and International Relations

1999 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 291-299 ◽  
Author(s):  
RICHARD LITTLE
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
International Relations ◽  
International Political Economy ◽  
Alfred North Whitehead ◽  
The Political ◽  
State University ◽  
Founding Fathers ◽  
Disciplinary History ◽  
Considerable Debate ◽  
History Of

Stafano Guzzini, Realism in International Relations and International Political Economy: The Continuing Story of a Death Foretold, London and New York, Routledge, 1998Brian C. Schmidt, The Political Discourse of Anarchy: A Disciplinary History of International Relations, Albany, State University of New York Press, 1998The philosopher and mathematician, Alfred North Whitehead, cautioned many years ago that ‘A science which hesitates to forget its founders is lost’. If this injunction is true, then there would appear to be very little hope for the study of international relations. Although there is considerable debate about who constitute the founding fathers – names as different as Thucydides, Grotius and Kant come to mind – without doubt, interest in the seminal thoughts about international relations of such figures has never been higher.

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