International Theory: The Three Traditions

Martin Wight

Leicester University Press for the Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1994 - Foreign relations - 286 pages

Wight explores the debate between three groups of thinkers - Machiavellians, Grotians and Kantians. He examined the distinctive doctrines each offered concerning war, diplomacy, power, national interest, the obligation of treaties, the obligation of an individual to bear arms, and the conduct of foreign policy.

About the author

Martin Wight was born in 1913, and died in 1972. This book, edited by his wife, Gabriele Wight, and his colleague, Dr. Brian Porter, brings together some of his previously unpublished material. Mrs. Gabriele Wight married Martin Wight in 1952. She co-edited another of Martin Wight's posthumous
works, International Theory: The Three Traditions in 1991, which is now regarded as a classic. Dr Brian Porter was successively tutored and supervised by Martin Wight. He co-edited Wight's International Theory: The Three Traditions with Mrs Gabriele Wight in 1991.

Bibliographic information

• Title: International Theory: The Three Traditions
• Author: Martin Wight
• Editors: Gabriele Wight, Brian Porter
• Contributor: Royal Institute of International Affairs
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Leicester University Press for the Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1994
• ISBN: 071851744X, 9780718517441
• Length: 286 pages