Table Of ContentThe Anarchical Society
in a Globalized World
Edited by
Richard Little and John Williams
The Anarchical Society in a Globalized World
Also by Richard Little
BELIEF SYSTEMS AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS (with Steve Smith)
GLOBAL PROBLEMS AND WORLD ORDER (with R.D. McKinlay)
INTERNATIONAL SYSTEMS IN WORLD HISTORY (with Barry Buzan)
INTERVENTION: External Involvement in Civil War
ISSUES IN WORLD POLITICS (3rd edition) (with Brian White and Michael Smith)
THE LOGIC OF ANARCHY (with Barry Buzan and Charles Jones)
PERSPECTIVES ON WORLD POLITICS (3rd edition) (with Michael Smith)
Also by John Williams
HANNAH ARENDT AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: Readings across the
Lines (co-edited with Anthony F. Lang, Jr)
GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP: A Critical Reader (co-edited with Nigel Dower)
LEGITIMACY IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND THE RISE AND FALL OF
YUGOSLAVIA
The Anarchical Society
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Edited by
Richard Little
Department of Politics, University of Bristol
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John Williams
School of Government and International Affairs, Durham University
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Contents
Acknowledgements vii
Notes on Contributors viii
Introduction 1
fohn Williams and Richard Little
Part I The Contribution to the Study of International
Relations
1 Order and Society 13
fohn Williams
2 Seeing (Double) in the Darkness: The Moral Vision of
The Anarchical Society 35
Nicholas f. Rengger
3 Hedley Bull, 'Embedded Cosmopolitanism', and the
Pluralist-Solidarist Debate 51
foiio M. Almeida
Part II The Institutions of Anarchical Society
4 Rethinking Hedley Bull on the Institutions of International
Society 75
Barry Buzan
S The Balance of Power and Great Power Management 97
Richard Little
6 The Nature of Law in an Anarchical Society 121
David Armstrong
7 Diplomacy, Anti-diplomacy and International Society 141
Ian Hall
8 War in the Twenty-first Century: An Institution in Crisis 162
Charles A. Jones
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Part III The Test of Time
9 The State of International Society 191
Andrew Hurrell
References 216
Index 229
Acknowledgements
This book was planned at a workshop organized by the English School
Working Group in 2003. The participants are grateful to the British
International Studies Association for funding the workshop and to the
Department of Politics in the University of Bristol for providing the
venue. The editors would also like to thank the School of Government
and International Affairs at the University of Durham for providing edit
orial assistance and to Lorraine Holmes for her help in the preparation
of the manuscript.
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Notes on Contributors
Joao M. Almeida is Director of the Portuguese National Defense Insti
tute, and Associate Professor of International Relations at the Lusfada
University, Lisbon. He received his Ph.D. in International Relations from
the London School of Economics. He has published on the English
School and on European security, and is working on a book based on the
thesis, tentatively entitled Between Anarchy and Empire: Republicanism,
International Society and the Pluralist-Solidarist Debate.
David Armstrong is Professor of International Relations at the Univer
sity of Exeter, having previously been Professor of Politics at Durham
University. He has published books and articles on topics ranging from
Chinese foreign policy to the rise of the international organisation
and is currently working on a book on the evolution of international
legal norms.
Barry Buzan is Professor of International Relations at the London
School of Economics, honourary Professor at the Department of Political
Science, University of Copenhagen, and a Fellow of the British Academy.
Amongst his recent books are From International to World Society? English
School Theory and the Social Structure of Globalisation.
Ian Hall is Lecturer in International Relations at the University of
St Andrews. He has published widely on the intellectual history of
international relations and is currently completing a study of the work
of Martin Wight for the Palgrave Macmillan History of International
Thought series.
Andrew Hurrell is Director of the Centre for International Studies at
Oxford University and a Fellow of Nuffield College. Publications include:
co-editor with Louise Fawcett, Regionalism in World Politics (1995); co
editor with Ngaire Woods, Inequality, Globalization and World Politics
(1999); co-editor with Rosemary Foot and John Gaddis, Order and Justice
in International Relations (2003); co-author with Monica Hirst, The United
States and Brazil: A Long Road ofUnmet Expectations (2004). At the time of
writing, he was about to complete International Society and World Order
(to be published).
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Notes on Contributors ix
Charles A. jones taught international political economy for many years
at the University of Warwick before moving to Cambridge in 1998. In
recent years he has specialised in the history of international thought
and developed a particular interest in representations of war.
Richard Little is Professor of International Politics at the University of
Bristol. He is a former editor of the Review of International Studies and
Chair of the British International Studies Association. Currently he holds
a major research fellowship from the Leverhulme Trust and is working
on the history and theory of the balance of power. He is the co-author
with Barry Buzan of International Systems in World History.
Nicholas j. Rengger is Professor of Political Theory and International
Relations at St Andrews University. He has published widely in contem
porary political and international theory and intellectual history. His
most recent book (with Chris Brown and Terry Nardin) is International
Relations in Political Thought: Texts from the Ancient Greeks to the First
World War (Cambridge, 2002) and at the time of writing, he was about
to complete a study entitled Dealing in Darkness: The Political Theory of
Fear, Fraud and Force in International Relations.
john Williams is Lecturer in International Relations, School of Govern
ment and International Affairs, Durham University. As well as recent
publications on the English school in the Review of International Studies
and International Relations, he is the author of Ethics and Territorial
Borders: Drawing lines in the Shifting Sands published by Palgrave in 2006.
