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Bull's work as a Foreign Office official for Harold Wilson's government, the complexity of his views, including Bull's unpublished papers, and challenges some of the comfortable assertions about Bull's place in the English School of IR.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

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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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Book Title: Hedley Bull and the Accommodation of Power
Authors: Robert Ayson
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in International Relations
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137291509
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Political & Intern. Studies Collection, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-36389-2Published: 24 September 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-34910-4Published: 01 January 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-29150-9Published: 24 September 2012
Series ISSN: 2946-2673
Series E-ISSN: 2946-2681
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 244
Topics: International Relations, Political History, International Organization, Political Science, Military and Defence Studies

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