| Samenvatting: | This is the second of two articles analysing the intellectual
formation of Alfred Zimmern, a leading figure in the study of International
Relations in the first half of the twentieth century. Drawing on many archival
sources, it argues against claims in recent scholarship that Zimmern should be
classified as a Burkean liberal. It first outlines Zimmern’s frequent advocacy
of Socialism and state intervention, and then examines the politics of Zimmern’s famous monograph The Greek Commonwealth (1911), suggesting
that the influence of Aristotle and Anthropology, and not just Burke, can be
seen in his portrayal of the power of tradition in early Greece, and that this
traditionalism is presented as preparing for the revolutionary freedom claimed
for the classical polis.
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