Anglosaskie źródła nauki o stosunkach międzynarodowych
Anglo-Saxon sources of the discipline of International Realtions

Summary/Abstract: The discipline called International Relations was developed in the United States from the study of international law, which attracted researchers from political science and historical studies, in the general context of the classic political philosophy. The basic aim of the author is to examine the effect of this development in its historical context of the interwar period as well as the postwar period. The starting point of the analysis is the idea of the current understanding of the theory of international relations and its historical roots. Mainstream theories treat the past of the international theory as a chain of methodological and theoretical debates concerning the scope of the discipline and its mission. The problem of the identity of International Relations lies in the argument over the today’s vision of the discipline’s history. The so-called Great Debate between realists and idealists is an arguable phenomenon as well as the identity of political realists’ vision of the international order and its rules, especially the international balance of power. The study tries to show the determinants of the theory of international relations before the era of positivism. It is a fascinating period of the emergence of this „laboratory of the world”. The analysis reveals the opinion of several American, British and Australian authors on the identity of international studies from the perspective of political science.

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