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present at the LSE meeting saw international relations as a synthesis of
different approaches or subjects, what he termed the London view, that
is, the view of Manning and certain of his colleagues, was that it had a
‘disciplinary value and unity of its own.’^152
For Vernant, who shared Manning’s view that international rela-
tions was a distinct discipline, the import of the Utrecht resolution on
the organisation of systematic teaching or research in the field of inter-
national relations in universities concerned the necessity, at least in the
European context, of regrouping the social sciences in the universities
and of inscribing within that framework the instruction of international
relations.^153 This issue was a feature on the agenda of the Fourteenth
Session of the International Studies Conference which took place in Paris
between August 29 and September 3, 1949. Although the ISC received
financial assistance from UNESCO for the purpose of holding the con-
ference as well as grants from the Rockefeller Foundation and Carnegie
Endowment, for ‘reasons of economy’ official invitations to it were con-
fined to European members of the conference and to United Nations’
representatives.^154
Among the few non-European-based groups represented were the fol-
lowing: the American Coordinating Committee for International Studies
which was represented by Davis; the CFR; and the IPR, this last being
represented by Mitrany and Katherine R. G. Greene. Another non-Eu-
ropean organisation represented at the meeting was the Indian Council
of World Affairs, this body having replaced the more colonialist Indian
Institute of International Affairs as the Indian member of the confer-
ence. Other new members admitted to the conference that year were
(^152) P. A. Reynolds, ‘The Study of International Relations in the United Kingdom,’ India
Quarterly 5 (1949): 112–21. Paul A. Reynolds noted that the meeting of representatives of
universities and university colleges in the United Kingdom in January 1949 was the fourth
in a series as there had been three such meetings prior to September 1939.
(^153) Vernant, ‘La Conférence Permanente des Hautes Études Internationales,’ 121.
See also Geoffrey L. Goodwin, preface to Goodwin ed., The University Teaching of
International Relations, 5.
(^154) ‘Fourteenth Session of the International Studies Conference,’ International Social
Science Bulletin 1, nos. 3–4 (1949): 93–5, 93. See also UNESCO, ‘Conseil exécutif ’ XIV
(1950), 20-21-22 Sessions, 20 EX/2 (SS)–14, UA. UNESCO provided a some of $3000
to facilitate the 1949 conference of the ISC.