486 J.-A. PEMBERTON
relationship between political science and international relations, noting
the fact that UNESCO had initiated a specific inquiry into the teaching
of the latter even though it had been determined, as expressed in IPSA’s
1949 constitution, that international relations was one of the four key
areas addressed by political science. Robson, concerned about the ten-
dency in some universities to separate international relations from polit-
ical science, insisted that the former could not form a distinct field study
as the fundamental concepts of political science—these being, according
to Robson, sovereignty and power—were also the building blocks of
international relations. Robson added that it was absurd to ‘divide State
politics into two separate subjects, according to whether they concerned
international questions or relations with foreign countries’: political sci-
ence and international relations both had as their focus the state.^198
Geoffrey L. Goodwin, a lecturer in the department of international
relations at the LSE who had edited the proceedings of the ISC’s Windsor
meeting, challenged Robson’s position. Goodwin stated at the IPSA
meeting that in his view, international relations should be constituted as
a separate discipline (a position to which Wright leant some support),
Goodwin’s argument in this regard being that international relations
had a ‘definite purpose’: the study of the ‘community of States’.^199 The
inquiry into the teaching of international relations about which Robson
had complained, was under the direction of Manning was assisted in his
direction of it by Goodwin among others. The report resulting from this
inquiry, which was the second volume in a series called the University
Teaching of Social Sciences to be published by UNESCO, appeared in
February 1954, by which time the ISC had been liquidated.^200
The immediate cause of the ISC’s demise was the decision of
UNESCO’s General Conference on the recommendation of the
UNESCO’s Executive Board not to renew its agreement with the organ-
isation at its General Conference in November–December 1952.^201
(^198) Ibid., 105–06.
(^199) Ibid., 109.
(^200) International Social Sciences Bulletin 5, no. 1 (1953), 152. See also Unesco, preface
to Manning, The University Teaching of Social Sciences: International Relations. On the
winding up of the ISC see David Long, ‘Who Killed the International Studies Conference,’
Review of International Studies 32, no. 4 (2006): 603–22, 607.
(^201) ‘Resolutions,’ in UNESCO, ‘Records of the General Conference: Seventh Session,
Paris, 1952,’ Proceedings, 33.3, 101, UA.