the funding of the British Committee on the Theory of International Politics, chaired in its early years by his former supervisor, Butterfield, and funded by the Rockefeller Foundation. Watson became a member of Committee, attending when he was in the UK, and later becoming its third chairman, in succession to Butterfield and to Martin Wight. He was instrumental in the production of The Expansion of International Society (1984), edited with Hedley Bull, a key text of the English school of international relations. He also wrote a number of other significant works, including The Nature and Problems of the Third World (1968), Diplomacy (1982) and The Evolution of International Society (1992), a wide-ranging comparative study of historical international systems. Works 1952 Problems of Adjustment in the Middle East (Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, vol. 282) 1964 The War of the Goldsmith's Daughter (Chatto & Windus) 1984 (ed. with H. Bull) The Expansion of International Society (Clarendon Press) 1992 The Evolution of International Society: A Comparative Historical Analysis (Routledge) 1997 The Limits of Independence (Routledge) 1998 The British Committee for the Theory of International Politics, some historical notes (University of Leeds) 2002 International Relations and the Practice of Hegemony (University of Leeds) 2002 Recollection of my discussions with Hedley Bull about the place in the history of International Relations of the idea of the Anarchical Society (University of Leeds) 2004 Diplomacy: The Dialogue Between States, 2nd ed. (Routledge) 2007 Hegemony & History (Routledge) References Richard J. Aldrich, The Hidden Hand: Britain, America and Cold War Secret Intelligence (Woodstock & New York: Overlook, 2002) Adam Bernstein, J. H. Watson, 93; British Envoy, Scholar, obituary, Washington Post, 14 September 2007 External links Obituary in The Times, 17 October 2007 Some of his works, free for download English School official website 1914 births 2007 deaths British expatriate academics Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Mali Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Mauritania Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Cuba Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Togo Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Senegal People educated at Rugby School Alumni of King's College, Cambridge Australian National University faculty University of Virginia faculty Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George Scholars of diplomacy Information Research Department