The Anarchical Society is one of the masterworks of political science and the classic text on the nature of order in world politics. Originally published in 1977, it continues to define and shape the discipline of international relations. This edition has been updated with a new, interpretive foreword by Andrew Hurrell. Bull explores three fundamental questions: What is order in world politics? How is order maintained in the contemporary states system? What alternative paths to world order are desirable and feasible? Laws and institutions, Bull points out, shift and change over time. The Anarchical Society addresses the unwritten rules which have allowed international order to exist across the ages.
- ISBN10 0231127634
- ISBN13 9780231127639
- Publish Date 17 July 2002 (first published February 1977)
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 6 November 2012
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Columbia University Press
- Edition 3rd Revised edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 368
- Language English