International society and its critics alex j bellamy abstract this book is a major new evaluation of the contribution of the influential english school to international relations theory it focuses on all the key contemporary and international political issues and contains a mixture of theoretical and empirical issues presented by leading scholars in the field in recent years the english . International society and its critics august 2004 doi 101093 01992652080010001 authors a j bellamy request full text pdf to read the full text of this research you can request a copy . International society and its critics edited by alex j bellamy major new evaluation of the influential english schools contribution to international relations theory focusses on all the key contemporary international political issues contains a mixture of theoretical and empirical issues presented by leading scholars. In this major new work leading scholars come together to evaluate the influential international society approach to contemporary world politics writing from a variety of perspectives the contributors to this book demonstrate that a proper understanding of world politics needs to incorporate many types of actor and be able to explain the different types of issue in world politics