The English School of International Relations: A ContemporaryReassessment. By Andrew Linklater and Hidemi Suganami.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. 302p. $80.00 cloth,$29.99 paper.

The English School, although still not mainstream, is nowincreasingly recognized as one of the significant approaches to thestudy of international relations. In their attempts to map theparameters of the field, for example, both Steven D. Krasner inSovereignty: Organized Hypocrisy (1999) andAlexander Wendt in Social Theory of InternationalPolitics (1999) position the English School alongsidemore familiar schools of thought. There is also now a section of theInternational Studies Association devoted to the English School andit sponsored more than a dozen panels at the 2007 convention inChicago. As the prominence of the English School has risen, so hasthe need for a comprehensive and authoritative assessment of itsdevelopment and defining ideas.