1935 – 1949: bookseller, schoolteacher,
journalist
 1949 – 1961: Reader in the Department
of International Relations at the London
School of Economics (LSE)
 1962: Professor of History at the new
University of Sussex
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Unconventional thinker
 Strong religious convictions
 Deep concerns about politics and
morality
 Leitmotif “crisis” due to WWI
 Enigmatic character
 Studied Modern History

1956-1957 visiting scholar at the University
of Chicago
 assumed the absent Hans Morgenthau‘s
teaching possibilities
 instead of diplomacy he taught IR
 Lectures were later reconstructed and
published as “International Theory: The
Three Traditions”

1936 „Christian Pacifism“
 1946 „The development of the
Legislative Council“
 1946 „Power Politics“
 1947 „The Gold Coast Legislative
Council“
 1948 „The Church, Russia and the West“
 1951 contributed to „Attitude to Africa“

1952 Collection of „British Colonial
Constitutions“
 1956 „The Power Struggle within the
United Nations“
 1960 „Why is there no International
Theory?“, „Brutus in Foreign Policy“
 1964 „European Studies“
 1977 „Systems of States“
 1991 “International Theory: The Three
Traditions”
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International Journal Vol. 48, No3,
Summer 1993
 Hall Ian, 2006, The International Thought
of Martin Wight
 The Martin Wight Memorial Trust,
www.mwmt.co.uk
 Porter Brian, 2007, Review article The
international political thought of Martin
Wight, International Affairs 83: 4, 783–789
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