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Romanian-born, naturalized British scholar, historian and political theorist.

The richest source of information concerning Mitrany’s life and intellectual

activity are the memoirs he published in 1975 in The Functional Theory

of Politics. On 1 September 1933 Mitrany joined the original faculty of the

School of Economics and Politics at the Institute for Advanced

Study (IAS) in Princeton, New Jersey where

he served along with Edward M. Earle, Winfield W. Riefler, Walter W. Stewart,

and Robert B. Warren. He left

the IAS in 1953. Mitrany worked on international relations and on issues of the

Danube region. He is considered as the creator of the theory of functionalism

in international relations, also classified as a part of liberal

institutionalism (see Liberalism). Mitrany pioneered modern

integrative theory. This discipline is the third main liberal approach to

international relations (along with international liberalism and idealism). Its

basic principle maintains that international (not only economical) cooperation

is the best means of softening antagonism in the international environment. The

idea of this international cooperation was elaborated upon by Leonard Hobhouse, and then by Leonard Woolf and G. D. H. Cole. The main rationale behind it was that “peace is

more than the absence of violence”. Cornelia Navari wrote that the British

pluralist doctrine had become the lifeblood of Mitrany’s theory. Following

a series of conferences held at Harvard and Yale, he published two of his

theoretical studies concerning the international system, The Political

Consequences of Economic Planning and The Progress of

International Government. The first public presentation of his

functionalist approach to international relations occurred during a series of

conferences held at Yale University in 1932. Mitrany got famous eventually with

his pamphlet A Working Peace System of 1943. illusionary federation projects according which could hinder a quick and effective re-establishment of peace. The

“European” federalists have been so fascinated by a readily convenient formula

that they have neither asked how it works where it exists, nor whether its

origins bear any relation to the problem of uniting a group of states in the

present social ambience. Claim

for functional agencies: Instead of those federation

projects Mitrany recommended lean functional agencies for the

execution of international cooperation on all issue-related, mainly technical

and economic sectors. But Mitrany’s functionalism also referred to intrastate

combinations: to special-purpose associations like the Tennessee Valley Authority or

the London Transport Board, in

which partly independent union states or co-equal municipal authorities

coordinated their interests. And Mitrany listed private cartels, e.g. the

former rationalization cartels of the British shipping,

cotton and steel industry, among his functional agencies. In his argumentation

it can be noticed the presence of elements inspired by his liberal pluralist

contemporaries.