Cornelia Navari was Associate Professor of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Birmingham UK and Visiting Professor of International Affairs at the University of Buckingham.  She has written Internationalism and the State in the 20th Century (2000) and Public Intellectuals and International Affairs (2012). Among edited works are Hans J Morgenthau and the American Experience (2018), International Organization in the Anarchical Society (2019) with Tonny Brems Knudsen, and International Society: The English School (2020). She was made an International Studies Association Distinguished Scholar in 2019.

Chapter 1: Introduction: Two Ideas of Tradition

Chapter 2: Grotius the Innovator (1625)

Chapter 3: Hobbes (1588 -1679), a Contributor, and Pufendorf (1632 - 1694), the Master

Chapter 4: The Gottingen Historians, Heeren (1760-1842) and Ranke (1795-1886): the Real Thing

Chapter 5: Eighteenth-Century Scepticism: Rousseau, Kant and Vattel

Chapter 6: The French Revolution-Concert, Progress and Civilization: Gentz, Wheaton and Lorimer

Chapter 7: Civilization as Humanity: the "men of 1873", John Westlake and the Grotius Society

Chapter 8: The Recovery of Vitoria and Suarez and the apprehension of a World Society: Krabbe, Verdross and Leon Duguit

Chapter 9: The Lawyers and the League: Charles Manning, Hersch Lauterpacht and Georg Schwarzenberger

Chapter 10: The British Committee, Hedley Bull (1932-1985) and the Theory of International Society

Chapter 11: International Society as a Research Tradition: Vincent, Keene, Wheeler, Buzan, among others.