CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY DAREN BOWYER JUST WAR DOCTRINE

Hobbesianism/
Machiavellianism
(Wight: Realism)
Analytical Focus:
International System
Figure 1-1: Three Traditions 77
As Wight 78 himself put it:
Security/defensive
Power Power maximisation maximisation -- Imperialism Imperialism
Kantianism
Wight: Revolutionism
Messianic Messianic -- universalism universalism
Conservative/pluralist
Analytical Focus:
World Society
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Grotianism
(Wight: Rationalism)
Analytical Focus:
International Society
Progressive/Isolationist
Progressive/Isolationist
Evolutionary Evolutionary
..the three traditions are not like three railroad tracks running parallel into
infinity. They are not philosophically constant and pure like three stately,
tranquil and independent streams…..They are streams, with eddies and crosscurrents,
sometimes interlacing and never for long confined to their own river
bed. They are, to vary the metaphor, threads interwoven in the tapestry of
Western civilization. They both influence and cross-fertilize one another, and
they change. Although without, I think, losing their inner identity.
The constant presence of the three voices may also be seen, it has been argued, in the
reality of the institutions of international relations. As a prime example, the UN’s
constitution demonstrates all three: the Security Council, enshrining the veto of the
Permanent 5 members, reflects a realist balance of power; the equality of member states
in the General Assembly is rationalist; and the growing body of human rights legislation
and conventions at least nods in the direction of world society cosmopolitanism 79 .