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The Anarchical Society
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In this, his most systematic and fundamental work, Hedley Bull explores three key questions: what is the nature of order in world politics?; how is it maintained in the contemporary state system?; and
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“There is a cosmopolitan layout underneath the nation-state system, without the help of which no individual nation-state can claim its right to selfdetermination in any meaningful way”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Bull, H.
- Corresponding author
- Bull, Hedley
- Publisher
- Macmillan Education UK
- Published
- 1977
- OpenAlex
- W2483029534
- Cited by
- 3,316
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 76 · 2025: 112 · 2024: 140 · 2023: 87 · 2022: 90 · 2021: 141 · 2020: 210 · 2019: 207 · 2018: 152 · 2017: 122 · 2016: 133 · 2015: 100 · 2014: 102 · 2013: 108 · 2012: 99
- FWCI
- 41.39
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › International Relations and Foreign Policy
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Global Peace and Security Dynamics
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Political Science Research and Education
- Keywords
- anarchy, international order, state system, international politics, international relations theory, international society
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