Original citation

Essential reading
Armstrong, D. ‘The evolution of international society’.
Further reading
Bull, H. ‘International theory: the case for a classical approach’, World Politics 
18(3) 1966, pp.20–38. 
Buzan, B. and R. Little ‘Units in the modern international system’ in Buzan, 
B. And R. Little International systems in world history. (Oxford: Oxford 
University Press, 2000) [ISBN 9780198780656].
Darwin, J. ‘The Eurasian revolution’ in Darwin, J. Tamerlane: the global history 
of empire. (London: Penguin Books, 2007) [ISBN 9781596913936].
Gellner, E. Plough, book and sword: the structure of human history. (Chicago: 
University of Chicago Press, 1988) [ISBN 9780226287027].
Grader, S., ‘The English School of international relations: evidence and 
evaluation’, Review of International Studies 14(1) 1988, pp.29–44.

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Little, R. ‘The English School vs. American Realism: a meeting of minds or 
divided by a common language?’, Review of International Studies 29(3) 
2003, pp.443–60.
McNeill, W.H. The rise of the West: a history of the human community. (Chicago: 
University of Chicago Press, 1992) [ISBN 9780226561417].
Meadwell, H. ‘The long nineteenth century in Europe: reinterpreting the 
concert system’ in Cox, M., Dunne, T. and Booth, K. Empires, systems 
and states: great transformations in international politics. (Cambridge: 
Cambridge University Press, 2002) [ISBN 9780521016865]. Note: this is 
the book form of a special issue of the Review of International Studies 27(5) 
2001.
Morris, I. ‘The Western age’ in Morris, I. Why the West rules – for now: the 
patterns of history, and what they reveal about the future. (London: Profile 
Books, 2011) [ISBN 9781846682087].
Roberts, J.M. ‘The European world hegemony’ in Roberts, J.M. The new Penguin 
history of the world. (London: Penguin Books, 2007) fifth edition 
[ISBN 9780141030425].
Schroeder, P.W. ‘The 19th century international system: changes in the 
structure’, World Politics 39(1) 1986, pp.1–26.
Sofka, J.R. `The eighteenth century international system: parity or primacy?’, 
Review of International Studies 27(2) 2001, pp.147–63.
Tilly, C. Coercion, capital and European states AD 990–1990. (Oxford: Blackwell, 
1992) second edition [ISBN 9781557863683].