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Hedley Bull and the Accommodation of Power

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  • © 2012

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  1. Robert Ayson

    1. Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

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Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in International Relations (PSIR)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

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    Pages 1-8

  3. The Education of Hedley Bull

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    Pages 9-30

  4. The East-West Accommodation

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    Pages 31-56

  5. Accommodating the New Nuclear Powers

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    Pages 57-85

  6. Interregnum: Between London and Canberra

    • Robert Ayson
    Pages 86-102

  7. Accommodating Asia: The View from Australia

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    Pages 103-131

  8. Order Through Justice? Accommodating the Third World

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    Pages 132-153

  9. Accommodating the World from Oxford

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    Pages 154-183

  10. Conclusion

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    Pages 184-196

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 197-244
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About this book

Offering a comprehensive account of the work of Hedley Bull, Ayson analyses the breadth of Bull's work as a Foreign Office official for Harold Wilson's government, the complexity of his views, including Bull's unpublished papers, and challenges some of the comfortable assertions about Bull's place in the English School of IR.

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"Often commented upon, close study of Hedley Bull's ideas of international order in their origins is rare. Robert Ayson's study is doubly welcome, not only in its thoroughness, but in suggesting the relevance of Bull's early experience and training for the formation of his ideas on the foundations of international order." - International Affairs

Authors and Affiliations

  • Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

    Robert Ayson

About the author

Robert Ayson is Professor of Strategic Studies at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, where he works closely with the Centre for Strategic Studies. He gained his PhD as a Commonwealth Scholar at King s College London, UK and his MA as a Freyberg Scholar to the Australian National University. His previous writing includes Thomas Schelling and the Nuclear Age (Frank Cass, 2004) and Hedley Bull and the Accommodation of Power (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012). He is an Honorary Professor with the New Zealand Defence Force Command and Staff College and Adjunct Professor with the Australian National University s Strategic and Defence Studies Centre.

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