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Uncelebrated Trouble Maker: John Stuart Mill as English Radicalism’s Foreign Politics Gadfly

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  • Georgios Varouxakis

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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.

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  • Georgios Varouxakis, 2013. "Uncelebrated Trouble Maker: John Stuart Mill as English Radicalism’s Foreign Politics Gadfly," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Kyriakos N. Demetriou & Antis Loizides (ed.), John Stuart Mill, chapter 5, pages 126-153, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-32171-8_6
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137321718_6
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