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Sir Alfred Zimmern revisited: fifty years on

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 October 2009

D. J. Markwell
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The publication in 1936 of Sir Alfred Zimmern's The League of Nations and the Rule of Law is now, fifty years on, little mentioned. It was ‘perhaps…the most polished work of the “idealist” writers’ who dominated the academic study of international politics in Britain and America for most of the inter-war years;1 and Zimmern (then Montague Burton Professor of International Relations in Oxford) was ‘the most influential representative of our field’ in that period.

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Review of International Studies , Volume 12 , Issue 4 , October 1986 , pp. 279 - 292
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Copyright © British International Studies Association 1986

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