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These essays have been collected together and republished because we believe that the concept of international society continues to offer practical guidance for understanding the post-Cold War world, and that Bull’s contribution to international theory is of abiding interest. This chapter traces the contours of this continued relevance, looking first at the claim that Bull’s analysis of inter-state order is anachronistic in an age of globalization; then at Bull’s approach to normative issues; and concluding with some comments on the research agenda to which Bull’s work gives rise.
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Jan Art Scholte, ‘The Globalization of World Politics’, in John Bayliss and Steve Smith (eds), The Globalization of World Politics: An Introduction to International Relations (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997), p. 21.
Hedley Bull, ‘The Universality of Human Rights’, Millennium, 8: 2 (1979), p. 158.
For example, Paul Hirst and Granarne Thompson, Globalization in Question (Cambridge: Polity, 1996).
See, for example, Linda Weiss, The Myth of the Powerless State: Governing the Economy in a Global Age (Cambridge: Polity, 1998).
From different perspectives see Stephen Krasner, ‘Compromising Westphalia’, International Security, 20: 3 (1996), pp. 115–51
Andrew Hurrell, ‘Vattel: Pluralism and its Limits’, in Ian Clark and Iver Neuman (eds), Glassicali Theories of International Relations (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1996), pp. 233–55.
Review of Robert E. Osgood and Robert W. Fucker, Force, Order and Justice (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1967); BP.
On Anderson’s influence see James L. Richardson, ‘The Academic Study of International Relations’, in J. D. B. Miller and R. J. Vincent (eds), Order and Justice: Hedley Bull and International Relations (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990), from p. 175.
E. B. F. Midgley, ‘Natural law and the “Anglo-Saxons” — Some Reflections in Response to Hedley Bull’, British Journal of International Studies, 5 (1979), p. 262.
‘Human Rights and World Politics’. Draft BP. Published version can be found in Ralph Pettman (ed.), Moral Claims in World Affairs (Canberra: ANU Press, 1979), pp. 89–90.
See Ian Harris, ‘Order and Justice in “The anarchical society”’, International Affairs, 69: 4 (1993), pp. 728–33.
Terry Nardin, Law, Morality, and the Relations between States (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1983), p. 9, and, for his discussion of Vattel and eighteenth-century international society, pp. 60–8.
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Alderson, K., Hurrell, A. (2000). The Continuing Relevance of International Society. In: Alderson, K., Hurrell, A. (eds) Hedley Bull on International Society. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-62666-3_3
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