 1935 – 1949: bookseller, schoolteacher, journalist  1949 – 1961: Reader in the Department of International Relations at the London School of Economics (LSE)  1962: Professor of History at the new University of Sussex

 Unconventional thinker  Strong religious convictions  Deep concerns about politics and morality  Leitmotif “crisis” due to WWI  Enigmatic character  Studied Modern History

 visiting scholar at the University of Chicago  assumed the absent Hans Morgenthau‘s teaching possibilities  instead of diplomacy he taught IR  Lectures were later reconstructed and published as “International Theory: The Three Traditions”

 1936 „Christian Pacifism“  1946 „The development of the Legislative Council“  1946 „Power Politics“  1947 „The Gold Coast Legislative Council“  1948 „The Church, Russia and the West“  1951 contributed to „Attitude to Africa“

 1952 Collection of „British Colonial Constitutions“  1956 „The Power Struggle within the United Nations“  1960 „Why is there no International Theory?“, „Brutus in Foreign Policy“  1964 „European Studies“  1977 „Systems of States“  1991 “International Theory: The Three Traditions”

 International Journal Vol. 48, No3, Summer 1993  Hall Ian, 2006, The International Thought of Martin Wight  The Martin Wight Memorial Trust,  Porter Brian, 2007, Review article The international political thought of Martin Wight, International Affairs 83: 4, 783–789