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<p><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Department
of Politics and Public Administration Seminar, 4 November, 2.15, MC2005<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Barry
Hussey (UL) 'John H. Herz and the transformation of political community' <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>While
the recent fillip in interest in John H. Herz has brought his thinking far
beyond the security dilemma, little attention has been paid to the state and
its place in international politics in his writing. The rebuttal of the statist
assumption in realist IR theory is not a new one but what is gained by engaging
with Herz's examination of the state is a clear image of Herz's broader
political project - survival research - but also an exemplar of the classical
realist. After providing some background to Herz's life, the paper presented
will outline the development of Herz’s writing on the state beginning
with his earliest work on the Nazi state and international law. It will then
consider his description of the hard-shell, ‘impenetrable’ state;
before going onto his ultimate realisation of its porous and passing existence.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>This paper is an important addition to the growing
area of ‘Herz Studies’ (See IR March, 2008 Vol.22, No. 4 Special
Issue on Herz), and also to the inexorable chipping away of the façade of an
uncritical and monolithic realism. The conclusion of the paper will place the
examination of Herz's state theory in the context of the broader
'archaeological' move to resurrect classical realism. A number of unpublished
notes for a book which Herz hoped to write which have up to now been unexamined
will reveal a much stronger commitment to survival research will also be
described. By examining the progression of Herz’s state-theory and the
implicit connection to the question of ‘un</span></font><font size=2><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>iversalism’ and survival research new insights
into Herz and his place within the re-examination of realist IR theory will be
shown</span></font> <o:p></o:p></p>
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