International Relations in France

1Introduction and method

Il est difficile de mesurer tout ce que notre culture et nos structures mentales doivent, en bien et en mal, à cette souveraineté de la dissertation. Mais il est évident que tout examen critique, toute analyse historique de notre univers intel-lectuel devrait passer par là.

Gérard Genette¹

Introduction

In the interwar years the issue of a discipline of International Relations was widely discussed in the international setting of the Zimmern Committee as part of the activities in the International Institute of Intellectual Co-operation under the auspices of the League of Nations. And here, among many other voices representing various views on the nature, limits and character of a discipline of IR, we find Jacques ...