The Anarchical Society

 The Anarchical Society: A Study of Order in World Politics is a 1977 book by Hedley Bull and a founding text of the English School of international relations theory. The title refers to the assumption of anarchy in the international system (posited primarily by realists) and argues for the existence of an international society.

The Anarchical Society
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First edition
AuthorHedley Bull
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
SubjectInternational relations
PublisherColumbia University Press
Publication date
1977
Media typeHardback
Pages335
ISBN0-231-04132-2
OCLC2332174
Dewey Decimal
341.2 19
LC ClassJX1954 .B79 1977

The book also outlines Bull's theory of new medievalism.

Bibliographic detailsEdit

  • Hedley Bull, The Anarchical Society: A Study of Order in World Politics (London: Macmillan, 1977), ISBN 0333199146.
  • Hedley Bull, The Anarchical Society: A Study of Order in World Politics, 2nd edn (London: Macmillan, 1995), ISBN 0333638220 (with a new foreword by Stanley Hoffmann).
  • Hedley Bull, The Anarchical Society: A Study of Order in World Politics, 3rd edn (New York: Columbia University Press, 2002), ISBN 0231127634 (paper), ISBN 0231127626 (cloth) (includes a substantial new foreword by Andrew Hurrell).

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