 Uncelebrated Trouble Maker: John Stuart Mill as English Radicalism’s Foreign Politics GadflyGeorgios Varouxakis Chapter 5 in John Stuart Mill, 2013, pp 126-153 from Palgrave Macmillan Abstract: Abstract Mill is not even mentioned (let alone included as a potential “trouble maker”) in A.J.P. Taylor’s classic study of dissenters over Britain’s foreign policy.2 And yet, as I argue in this chapter, Mill was exactly such a dissenter and trouble maker. More specifically, I intend to show that Mill’s was a case of “dissidence of dissent,”3 in the sense that, on a number of issues, he was a trouble maker not just in British public debates in general but within radical and “trouble making” circles in particular as well. Though such a role could be shown to have been adopted by Mill with regard to a broader range of issues,4 I will focus here only on those related to foreign policy and international relations. On a number of debates on national security and defence, military systems, non-intervention, international maritime law, pacifism, calls for international arbitration or international tribunals, the settler colonies, and other related issues, Mill’s positions often surprised and sometimes shocked his radical contemporaries. Keywords: Foreign Policy; Daily News; Liberal Party; International Arbitration; Radical Party (search for similar items in EconPapers) There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-32171-8_6 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Palgrave Macmillan Books from Palgrave Macmillan |
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