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SPRINGER BRIEFS ON PIONEERS IN SCIENCE AND PRACTICE 41 Kalevi Holsti Kalevi Holsti: A Pioneer in International Relations Theory, Foreign Policy Analysis, History of International Order, and Security Studies 123 SpringerBriefs on Pioneers in Science and Practice Volume 41 Series editor Hans Günter Brauch, Mosbach, Germany More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/10970 http://www.afes-press-books.de/html/SpringerBriefs_PSP.htm http://afes-press-books.de/html/SpringerBriefs_PSP_Holsti.htm Kalevi Holsti Kalevi Holsti: A Pioneer in International Relations Theory, Foreign Policy Analysis, History of International Order, and Security Studies 123 KaleviHolsti LiuInstitute for Global Issues University of British Columbia Vancouver, BC Canada Acknowledgment: The cover photograph as well as all other photos in this volume were takenfromthepersonalphotocollectionoftheauthorwhoalsograntedthepermissionontheir publication in this volume. A book website with additional information on Kalevi Holsti, including videos and his major book covers is at: http://afes-press-books.de/html/ SpringerBriefs_PSP_Holsti.htm. ISSN 2194-3125 ISSN 2194-3133 (electronic) SpringerBriefs onPioneersin ScienceandPractice ISBN978-3-319-26622-0 ISBN978-3-319-26624-4 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-26624-4 LibraryofCongressControlNumber:2015956353 ©TheAuthor(s)2016 Thisworkissubjecttocopyright.AllrightsarereservedbythePublisher,whetherthewholeorpart of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission orinformationstorageandretrieval,electronicadaptation,computersoftware,orbysimilarordissimilar methodologynowknownorhereafterdeveloped. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publicationdoesnotimply,evenintheabsenceofaspecificstatement,thatsuchnamesareexemptfrom therelevantprotectivelawsandregulationsandthereforefreeforgeneraluse. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authorsortheeditorsgiveawarranty,expressorimplied,withrespecttothematerialcontainedhereinor foranyerrorsoromissionsthatmayhavebeenmade. Copyediting:PDDr.HansGünterBrauch,AFES-PRESSe.V.,Mosbach,Germany Printedonacid-freepaper ThisSpringerimprintispublishedbySpringerNature TheregisteredcompanyisSpringerInternationalPublishingAGSwitzerland My academic life’s work was inspired and often aided by my brother Ole Holsti, by my late colleagues and friends Mark W. Zacher and James N. Rosenau, and by Raimo Väyrynen in Finland. I am pleased to acknowledge their role in my academic career through this dedication. Withfriendandlatecolleague,JimRosenau,atStudentConference,Morelia,Mexico,2006 Foreword KalHolstiwasborninGenevain1935,butwasacitizenofFinlanduntil1956.He received all three of his degrees from Stanford, culminating in a Ph.D. in 1961. Since 1962 he has been at the University of British Columbia. In 1984 he was elected president of the Canadian Political Science Association, and 2 years later, presidentoftheInternationalStudiesAssociation.In1985hewaselectedaFellow of the Royal Society of Canada. In 1997 his university named him University Killam Professor, only the seventh to be so designated since the founding of the University of British Columbia in 1915. Holsti is now professor emeritus. His initial impact on the field was made by a very widely used textbook: InternationalPolitics:AFrameworkforAnalysis,(1967,with7editions,thelastin 1995).ManystudentshadtheirfirstintroductiontoInternationalRelationsthrough thisbook,andweretreatedtoaclearandsystematicsettingoutofthesubjectwhich tookseriouslyboththeoryandhistory:featureswhichcontinuetobeahallmarkof Holsti’swork.Therearetwointellectualengagementsthatmakehisworkstandout within IR. One is his consistent and measured commentary on the state of IR as a ‘discipline’(thoughherejectstheviewthatIRisadiscipline).Hehasobservedthe various‘greatdebates’inIR,perhapsmostnotablyinhis1985book:TheDividing Discipline, maintaining a balanced view when many others resorted to ideological position-taking,personalattacks,andtotalrejectionoftheviewfromtheotherside. vii viii Foreword He has been a stabilizing force, caring for the trust and intellectual pluralism that areessentialtotheacademicenterprise.Hehasbeenskepticalabouttoogreatadrift into philosophy of knowledge questions, but kept an open mind about the insights to be gained from other approaches. Although adhering to a state-centric approach to IR, he has been critical of the one-sidedness of Realists in focusing only on the conflictual side of IR, and not on the collaborative one. Both this pluralist outlook, and his commitment to the importance of history reflecthissecondmainengagement,whichhasbeenwiththe‘classical’or‘English school’ tradition. In much of North American IR during the core decades of his career such an engagement put one outside the mainstream, and required intellec- tual courage. His main contributions here have been studies on war and on the institutionsofinternationalsocietyasawayofunderstandingandtheorizingchange in the international system. The engagement with change and institutions can be trackedbacktohis1991bookChangeintheInternationalSystem,andculminated in his important 2004 volume Taming the Sovereigns: Institutional Change in International Politics. His two books on war—Peace and War: Armed Conflicts and International Order 1648–1989 (1991) and The State, War, and the State of War (1996)—understand war as a systemic and a historical phenomenon repre- senting the ultimate failure of politics. I had the good fortune to be taught by him in 1965, when I was a second-year undergraduate, and he was using the ‘Introduction to International Politics’ course todevelophisbook.Ithadneveroccurredtomethatonecouldstandbackfromthe detailsofhistory,andlooknotonlyatwar,butalsoatthesystemthatgaverisetoit, as a set of bold, abstract patterns. I became quite entranced as his story unfolded week by week in a series of elegant and entertaining lectures. Kal showed his students that Realism was a good place to start building an understanding of international relations, but he left room for the idea that history matters, and that Realism may not be such a good place to end up. For me, and I am sure for many Foreword ix others,Kalwastheclassiccasenotonlyofateacherwhoseinitialinspirationmade a real difference to one’s life, but also whose subsequent work continued to stim- ulate and guide my own. London, London School of Economics Barry Buzan and Political Science Professor Emeritus February 2015 Department of International Relations and Honorary Professor Copenhagen and Jilin universities Barry Buzan (UK) is Professor Emeritus of International Relations at the LSE, and honorary professoratCopenhagenandJilinUniversity(China).During1993hewasvisitingprofessoratthe International University of Japan, and in 1997–1998 he was Olof Palme Visiting Professor in Sweden. He was Chairman of the British International Studies Association 1988–1990, Vice-Presidentofthe(NorthAmerican),InternationalStudiesAssociation1993–1994.In1998he waselectedaFellowoftheBritishAcademy,andin2001hewaselectedasanAcademicianofthe AssociationofLearnedSocietiesintheSocialSciences.Hismostrecentbooksare:(withRichard Little, 2000): International Systems in World History: Remaking the Study of International Relations;(withOleWæver,2003):RegionsandPowers:TheStructureofInternationalSecurity; (2004):FromInternationaltoWorldSociety?EnglishSchoolTheoryandtheSocialStructureof Globalisation;(2004):TheUnitedStatesandtheGreatPowers:WorldPoliticsintheTwenty-First Century; (with Lene Hansen, 2009: The evolution of international security studies (Cambridge: CambridgeUniversityPress);(withAnaGonzalez-Pelaez,eds.,2009):Internationalsocietyand the Middle East: English school theory at the regional level (Basingstoke: Macmillan); (with Amitav Acharya, eds., 2010): Non-Western international relations theory: perspectives on and beyondAsia(London:Routledge);(withMathiasAlbert,MichaelZürn,eds.,2013):Worldpolitics as differentiation theory (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press); (with both, eds., 2013): Bringingsociologytointernationalrelations:worldpoliticsasdifferentiationtheory(Cambridge: CambridgeUniversityPress);(withYongjinZhang,eds.,2014):Contestinginternationalsociety inEastAsia(Cambridge:CambridgeUniversityPress);Internationalsecurity(London:Sage);An IntroductiontotheEnglishSchoolofInternationalRelations:TheSocietalApproach(Cambridge: PolityPress,2014);(withGeorgeLawson,2015):TheGlobalTransformation:History,Modernity and the Making of International Relations, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press); Address: Prof.BarryBuzan,DepartmentofInternationalRelations,LSE,HoughtonStreet,LondonWC2A 2AE,UK;Email:<[email protected]>.
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