The Anarchical Society - Softcover

Bull, Hedley

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0231127634 ISBN 13: 9780231127639

Publisher: Columbia University Press, 2002

Synopsis

The Anarchical Society is one of the masterworks of political science and the classic text on the nature of order in world politics. Originally published in 1977, it continues to define and shape the discipline of international relations. This edition has been updated with a new, interpretive foreword by Andrew Hurrell. Bull explores three fundamental questions: What is order in world politics? How is order maintained in the contemporary states system? What alternative paths to world order are desirable and feasible? Laws and institutions, Bull points out, shift and change over time. The Anarchical Society addresses the unwritten rules which have allowed international order to exist across the ages.

About this title

About the Author:

Hedley Bull was Montague Burton Professor of International Relations at Oxford University.

Andrew Hurrell is Faculty Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford University.

Review:

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)

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

(Political Science Quarterly)

About this edition

• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0231127634
• ISBN 13: 9780231127639
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 368