The Anarchical Society at 40: Contemporary Challenges and Prospects

First published in 1977, Hedley Bull's The Anarchical Society is one of the classic texts in International Relations. This volume revisits Bull's work, providing new readings of the text, developing new criticisms and exploring its relevance to a wide range of contemporary issues in world politics.

Hidemi Suganami is Emeritus Professor of International Politics at Aberystwyth University. His major publications include The Domestic Analogy and World Order Proposals (CUP, 1989), On the Causes of War (OUP, 1996), and The English School of International Relations: A Contemporary Assessment (with Andrew Linklater, CUP, 2006).

Madeline Carr is a Senior Lecturer in International Relations at Cardiff University. Her research looks at the ways in which new technology both reinforces and disrupts conventional frameworks for understanding International Relations and the implications of this for state and global security, order and governance. Madeline has published on cyber norms, Internet Freedom, multi-stakeholder Internet governance, and the public/private partnership in national cyber security strategies (research funded by the British Council). Her publications include US Power and the Internet in International Relations (Palgrave MacMillan, 2016).

Adam R.C. Humphreys is Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Reading. Previously he taught at the University of Oxford, where he was also a British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellow. His principal research interests are in International Relations theory, especially the methodological questions it raises.