This book reassesses the contribution to international thought of some of the most important thinkers of the inter-war period and challenges the commonly-held view that writing on international relations between the two world wars was uniformly utopian.
David Long and Peter Wilson have brought together a strong team of scholars ... What emerges from this work is the extent of the diversity of thought amongst inter-war IR thinkers ... David Long is able to conclude that the realist-idealist dichotomy fails to do justice to the richness of ideas presented in this book.
Its ten essays on individual thinkers are all of value ... This distinguished collection of essays deserves to be widely read.