The Anarchical Society: A Study of Order in World Politics / Edition 3

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Overview

Laws and institutions, as Bull points out, shift and change over time.What The Anarchical Society attempts to address are the unwritten rules which have allowed international order to exist across the ages.

-A masterful analysis of the problem of international order in contemporary society and of the feasibility of such alternative models as disarmament, global organization, a highly proliferated world, and a radical redistribution of wealth and power. -Foreign Affairs

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FOREIGN AFFAIRS

A masterful analysis of the problem of international order in contemporary society and of the feasibility of such alternative models as disarmament, global organization, a highly proliferated world, and a radical redistribution of wealth and power.

Foreign Affairs
A masterful analysis of the problem of international order in contemporary society and of the feasibility of such alternative models as disarmament, global organization, a highly proliferated world, and a radical redistribution of wealth and power.
Political Science Quarterly

Bull has written that rarest of books: it is not the last, but the first word on its subject.

POLITICAL SCIENCE QUARTERLY

Bull has written that rarest of books: it is not the last, but the first word on its subject.

TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

An important book likely to be read with profit for a long time to come.

Foreign Affairs

A masterful analysis of the problem of international order in contemporary society and of the feasibility of such alternative models as disarmament, global organization, a highly proliferated world, and a radical redistribution of wealth and power.

Times Literary Supplement

An important book likely to be read with profit for a long time to come.

Time Magazines Literary Supplement
An important book likely to be read with profit for a long time to come.
Contemporary Political Review

Political theorists who might be tempted to disregard Bull's insights as no longer relevant to contemporary international relations ought to reconsider their arguments in light of these perennial philosophical issues.

— Ewan Harrison

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780231127639
  • Publisher: Columbia University Press
  • Publication date: 7/10/2002
  • Edition description: third edition
  • Edition number: 3
  • Pages: 368
  • Product dimensions: 5.80 (w) x 8.52 (h) x 0.84 (d)

Meet the Author

Hedley Bull (1932--1985) was Montague Burton Professor of International Relations at Oxford University. He also taught at the Australian National University and the London School of Economics.

Andrew Hurrell is Montague Burton Professor of International Relations and a fellow of Balliol College, Oxford University. He is the author of On Global Order: Power, Values, and the Constitution of International Society and coeditor of Order and Justice in International Relations, Hedley Bull on International Society, and Inequality, Globalization, and World Politics.

Stanley Hoffman is the Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor of International Relations at Harvard University. His many books include Chaos and Violence: What Globalization, Failed States, and Terrorism Mean for U.S. Foreign Policy and Gulliver Unbound: America's Imperial Temptation and the War in Iraq.

Columbia University Press

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Table of Contents

Foreword to the Third Edition
Foreword to the Second Edition
Preface
Introduction
Pt. 1 The Nature of Order in World Politics 1
1 The Concept of Order in World Politics 3
2 Does Order Exist in World Politics? 22
3 How is Order Maintained in World Politics? 51
4 Order versus Justice in World Politics 74
Pt. 2 Order in the Contemporary International System 95
5 The Balance of Power and International Order 97
6 International Law and International Order 122
7 Diplomacy and International Order 156
8 War and International Order 178
9 The Great Powers and International Order 194
Pt. 3 Alternative Paths to World Order 223
10 Alternatives to the Contemporary States System 225
11 The Decline of the States System? 248
12 The Obsolescence of the States System? 272
13 The Reform of the States System? 286
14 Conclusion 307
Notes and References 309
Index 321
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