'Reconvening' the English School

In this chapter, I aim to describe and critically evaluate Barry Buzan’s project to reconvene the English School in the late 1990s and early 2000s. The first part outlines the ‘internal’ and ‘external’ resistance that Buzan encountered, and discusses how this resistance was informed by different understandings of methods and philosophy of science. The second part discusses the actual contents of Buzan’s (Review of International Studies 27 (3): 471–488, 2001) call to reconvene the English School in the form of the forum article he published in Review of International Studies. This part will engage with the potential theoretical innovation identified by Buzan and the additional focus areas for research he proposed, before finally discussing the extent to which scholars have successfully addressed these.