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Hedley Bull (1932–1985)

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‘I’m sorry to be late, Professor Bull. I got rather lost on the way to your office.’

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  1. Hedley Bull, The Control of the Arms Race: Disarmament and Arms Control in the Nuclear Age, (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson for the Institute for Strategic Studies, 1961).

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  2. Hedley Bull, The Anarchical Society: A Study of Order in World Politics, (London and Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1977).

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  3. Hedley Bull, ‘The New Balance of Power in Asia and the Pacific’, Foreign Affairs, 49:4, July 1971, pp. 669–681.

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  4. Hedley Bull, ‘Options for Australia’, in Gordon McCarthy (ed.), Foreign Policy for Australia: Choices for the Seventies, (Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1973), pp. 137–183.

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  5. See Hedley Bull, ‘Society and Anarchy in International Relations’ and ‘The Grotian Conception of International Society’, in Herbert Butterfield and Martin Wight (eds), Diplomatic Investigations, (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1966), pp. 35–50; 51–73.

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  6. Hedley Bull, ‘International Theory: The Case for a Classical Approach’, World Politics, 18:3, April 1966, pp. 361–377.

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  7. For the use of this line, published two years after Bull’s death, see Hedley Bull, ‘Britain and Australia in Foreign Policy’, in J.D.B. Miller (ed.), Australians and British: Social and Political Connections, (North Ryde: Methuen Australia, 1987), p. 127.

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  8. See Hedley Bull, ‘Order vs. Justice in International Society’, Political Studies, 19:3, September 1971, pp. 455–463.

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  9. In 1977 Bull became Montague Burton Professor of International Relations at Oxford. On his career and thinking, see Robert Ayson, Hedley Bull and the Accommodation of Power, (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2012).

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  1. King’s College London, UK

    Richard Ned Lebow

  2. Danish Institute for International Studies, Denmark

    Peer Schouten

  3. Aberystwyth University, UK

    Hidemi Suganami

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Ayson, R. (2016). Hedley Bull (1932–1985). In: Lebow, R.N., Schouten, P., Suganami, H. (eds) The Return of the Theorists. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137516459_40

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