Uticaj Prvog svetskog rata na nastanak nauke o međunarodnim odnosima: između mita i stvarnosti
Influence of the Fist World War on the Genesis of International Relations Science: Between Myth and Reality

Author(s): Dragan R. Simić, Dragan Živojinović
Subject(s): International relations/trade, History and theory of political science, Comparative politics
Published by: Fakultet političkih nauka Univerziteta u Beogradu
Summary/Abstract: The subject of this paper is the impact of the First World War on the emergence of the science of international relations. It is an attempt to confront once widely accepted hypothesis about the First World War being the most important social cause for the inception of the discipline, with the new, increasingly popular hypothesis that the roots can actually be tracked back to the 19th century. In the first part of the paper, the authors deal with the conventional history of discipline, namely the establishment of the Woodrow Wilson Chair of International Politics at the University of Aberystwyth in Wales in the spring of 1919 and the First World War as the main social cause. The second part lays down criticism of the idea that the First World War was of crucial importance for the development of the science of international relations as an independent academic discipline. Special attention is given to the thesis of global transformation in the nineteenth century and theorists who support this hypothesis.

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