- World politics, International relations, International law and relations, History
E. H. Carr's classic work on international relations published in 1939 was immediately recognized by friend and foe alike as a defining work. The author was one of the most influential and controversial intellectuals of the 20th century. The issues and themes he developed continue to have relevance to modern day concerns with power and its distribution in the international system.
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- Author
- Edward Hallet Carr
- First published
- 1939
- Pages
- 243
- Publisher
- UNIV BRUXELLES, Palgrave Macmillan, Harper & Row
- Editions
- 37
- Language
- English, French, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9780333069134
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“The science of international politics is in its infancy.”
Edward Hallett "Ted" Carr CBE FBA (28 June 1892 – 3 November 1982) was a British historian, diplomat, journalist and international relations theorist, and an opponent of empiricism within historiography. Carr was best known for *A History of Soviet Russia*, a 14-volume history of the Soviet Union from 1917 to 1929 including *The Bolshevik Revolution, 1917-1923* (3 vols.), *The Interregnum*, 1923-1924 (1 vols.), *Socialism in One Country, 1924-1926* (3 vols.), *Foundations of a Planned Economy, 1926-1929* (3 vols.), for his writings on international relations, particularly *The Twenty Years' Crisis*, and for his book *What Is History?* in which he laid out historiographical principles rejecti
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