Adam Watson

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Adam Watson
CMG
Born
John Hugh Watson

(1914-08-10)10 August 1914
Died24 August 2007(2007-08-24) (aged 93)
Alma materKing's College, Cambridge
SchoolEnglish School
InstitutionsUniversity of Virginia
Australian National University
Main interests
international relations

John Hugh "Adam" Watson

CMG (10 August 1914 – 24 August 2007)[1] was a British International relations theorist and researcher. Alongside Hedley Bull, Martin Wight, Herbert Butterfield, and others, he was one of the founding members of the English school of international relations theory
.

He was born John Hugh Watson and educated at

Soviet Politburo[3]
and where he remained for the next four years.

In 1949 Watson joined the Foreign Office's new

Suez Crisis of 1956. He served as Her Majesty's Ambassador to Mali (1960–61), Senegal, Mauritania and Togo (1960–62), and finally Cuba (1962–66). He returned to London in 1966 to spend two years as Assistant Under-Secretary of State at the Foreign Office before retiring early. After a period with British Leyland in the late 1960s, he entered academia, first at the Australian National University, at the invitation of Hedley Bull, and then in the United States, where he was Professor of International Studies at the University of Virginia
.

In the late 1950s, it is likely that, given his extensive contacts in the United States and together with Kenneth W. Thompson, Watson was instrumental in facilitating the funding of the British Committee on the Theory of International Politics, chaired in its early years by his former supervisor, Butterfield, and funded by the Rockefeller Foundation. Watson became a member of Committee, attending when he was in the UK, and later becoming its third chairman, in succession to Butterfield and to Martin Wight. He was instrumental in the production of The Expansion of International Society (1984), edited with Hedley Bull, a key text of the English school of international relations. He also wrote a number of other significant works, including The Nature and Problems of the Third World (1968), Diplomacy (1982) and The Evolution of International Society (1992), a wide-ranging comparative study of historical international systems.[5]

Works

References

  1. ^ Obituary, The Telegraph, 28 September 2007
  2. ^ Washington Post obituary
  3. ^ Problems of Adjustment in the Middle East (1952), 61
  4. ^ Andrew Defty, Britain, America and Anti-Communist Propaganda (Routledge, 2004)
  5. ISSN 1740-3898
    .

External links

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