A great deal has been written about the intellectual sources of E. H. Carr's most famous book in International Relations, The twenty years’ crisis, published on the eve of the Second World War. However, very little attention has been paid to the contribution which Chatham House made to the book after having appointed Carr to chair a study group on ‘Nationalism’ in 1936. The volume which appeared three years later was not the most scintillating of studies, bearing as it did all the hallmarks of having been composed by a committee whose members held sharply differing views. On the other hand, the deep research that went into the volume (published in 1939 under the somewhat unimaginative title of Nationalism) contributed in significant ways—as Carr himself confessed at the time—to informing his ideas about the critical role played by nationalism and the nation-state in the crisis of the inter-war system. As this review essay shows, Carr's long journey towards rethinking world order began in Paris in 1919, as he grappled with the problem posed by nationalism in central and eastern Europe; continued through the 1930s with further work on the subject; and reached a resolution in his own work with the appearance of The twenty years’ crisis, followed in 1945 with the publication of his best-selling volume, Nationalism and after.

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EH Carr，查塔姆研究所和民族主义

关于 EH Carr 最著名的国际关系著作《二十年危机》的知识渊源，已经写了很多，该书出版于二战前夕。然而，很少有人注意到查塔姆研究所在 1936 年任命卡尔为“民族主义”研究小组主席后对这本书的贡献。三年后出版的这本书并不是最引人注目的研究，承载着就像它由一个委员会组成的所有标志一样，该委员会的成员持有截然不同的观点。另一方面，书中的深入研究（1939 年以“民族主义”这个有点缺乏想象力的标题出版）以重要的方式——正如卡尔自己当时承认的那样——为他关于民族主义和民族国家在战争间体系的危机。正如这篇评论文章所示，卡尔重新思考世界秩序的漫长旅程始于 1919 年的巴黎，当时他正在努力解决中欧和东欧的民族主义问题。持续到 1930 年代，进一步研究该主题；并以《二十年危机》的出现在自己的工作中达成了解决方案，随后在 1945 年出版了他的畅销书《民族主义》及之后。重新思考世界秩序的漫长旅程始于 1919 年的巴黎，当时他正努力解决中欧和东欧的民族主义问题；持续到 1930 年代，进一步研究该主题；并以《二十年危机》的出现在自己的工作中达成了解决方案，随后在 1945 年出版了他的畅销书《民族主义》及之后。重新思考世界秩序的漫长旅程始于 1919 年的巴黎，当时他正努力解决中欧和东欧的民族主义问题；持续到 1930 年代，进一步研究该主题；并以《二十年危机》的出现在自己的工作中达成了解决方案，随后在 1945 年出版了他的畅销书《民族主义》及之后。