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Hedley Bull, Montague Burton Professor of International Relations
at Oxford from 1977 until his death in 1985, was one of the great
scholars of his generation. He wrote within a tradition of
political thought which he himself traced back to Hobbes and Hume
and to Grotius and the natural lawyers. He not only added to the
literature in this tradition, but he also showed how it could
become a foundation for the study of International Relations. In
this book, leading scholars attempt to come to terms with his
contribution to the subject by offering essays on each of the major
aspects of his thought. The central political question in
International Relations is how order might exist amidst anarchy.
This was the question which Hedley Bull took as his starting-point
for thought, and he returned to it throughout his career, notably
in his major work, The Anarchical Society. The exploration of this
question is the central theme in the present volume, and each of
the authors take it as a point of departure and examine it from a
different point of view - such as society, order, the Third World,
strategy, and the contemporary system, and of professing the
subject of International Relations. The return to fundamentals
involved in this enterprise will make this volume an important and
valuable work. The contributors are: J. D. B. Miller, Stanley
Hoffman, R. J. Vincent, T. B. Millar, Robert Gilpin Jr., James
Richardson, and Carsten Holbraad.
This is a book of essays in honour of J.D.B.Miller and looks at the
relationship between the West and the Third World. It looks
especially at the liberal/democratic West in opposition to the
communist East and that version of modernity which is represented
by the developed capitalist world.
Frequent instances of intervention in current world affairs have
threatened the status of nonintervention as a rule of international
relations. Gathering evidence from history, law, sociology, and
political science, R. J. Vincent concludes that the principle of
nonintervention can and must remain viable. The author approaches
the question from several angles, seeking to discover why the
principle of nonintervention has been asserted as part of the law
of nations; whether states in the past and present have conducted
their foreign relations according to the principle of
nonintervention; and what function the principle performs in the
society formed between states. The author examines the principle of
nonintervention through examples taken from contemporary world
politics, focusing on its role in the doctrine and practice of the
Soviet Union, the United States, and the United Nations. He argues
that, despite the erosion of the order of sovereign states, the
arrival of nuclear response weapons, all-enveloping ideological
conflict, and transnational relationships that diminish the
significance of state frontiers, the principle of nonintervention
continues to contribute to the international order. Originally
published in 1974. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest
print-on-demand technology to again make available previously
out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton
University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of
these important books while presenting them in durable paperback
and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is
to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in
the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press
since its founding in 1905.
Frequent instances of intervention in current world affairs have
threatened the status of nonintervention as a rule of international
relations. Gathering evidence from history, law, sociology, and
political science, R. J. Vincent concludes that the principle of
nonintervention can and must remain viable. The author approaches
the question from several angles, seeking to discover why the
principle of nonintervention has been asserted as part of the law
of nations; whether states in the past and present have conducted
their foreign relations according to the principle of
nonintervention; and what function the principle performs in the
society formed between states. The author examines the principle of
nonintervention through examples taken from contemporary world
politics, focusing on its role in the doctrine and practice of the
Soviet Union, the United States, and the United Nations. He argues
that, despite the erosion of the order of sovereign states, the
arrival of nuclear response weapons, all-enveloping ideological
conflict, and transnational relationships that diminish the
significance of state frontiers, the principle of nonintervention
continues to contribute to the international order. Originally
published in 1974. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest
print-on-demand technology to again make available previously
out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton
University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of
these important books while presenting them in durable paperback
and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is
to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in
the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press
since its founding in 1905.
This is a book about the issue of human rights in international
relations, and the response to it both in the foreign policies of
states, and in the attitudes of international and non-governmental
organisations. Its main purpose is to connect up the issues on the
one hand and responses on the other, rather than, as is often the
case, considering each in isolation. A concluding chapter draws
together the assembled material in a general overview of the place
of human rights in the practice of international politics. The book
ranges across the whole international spectrum, and its importance
lies partly in its collection of case material, partly in its
linkage of issues to responses, and partly in its overall
conclusions about the role and impact of human rights in
international relations.
This book is about the impact of human rights on the relations among states. It seeks to bring together in one place an account of the theory of human rights (what they are; where they come from; whether they are universal); a discussion of the part they play in contemporary international politics (including East/West and North/South relations); and a view of what ought to be done about them--especially by the Western powers. Dr. Vincent recommends that provision for subsistence rights has a strong claim to priority over other human rights. Dr. Vincent's conclusion neither endorses the notion of the advance of cosmopolitan values in the society of states, nor rests on an observation of the continuing strength of state society. He shows how the grip of the sovereign state might in fact be tightened by its successful co-option of the international doctrine of human rights. Published in association with the Royal Institute of International Affairs.
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