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JOHN BURTON AND THE STUDY
OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: AN ASSESSMENT

David J. Dunn

In this article I want to assess the relationship between, the academic discipline of International Relations, by which I mean a set of issues and a community of scholars, and John Burton. The reasons for such an assessment are timely and significant. Firstly the International Relations community has tended to neglect the work of Burton. A survey of many recent assessments of theoretical debates in the discipline, for example, reveals that the references to Burton are usually to work that is nearly three decades old, namely World Society, which appeared in 1972, with a few references to Systems, States, Diplomacy and Rules which preceded it by four years. What is significant is that there is a paucity of references to the vast and arguably more important work done since. Secondly, by the same token, it is perfectly possible, that many scholars who have come to know of Burton's work in the areas......

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