The State’s Positive Role in World Affairs (1979)

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ID23145142
AutoresKAI ALDERSON, Andrew Hurrell (0000-0002-3477-128X)
Año2000
Páginas139-156
Fecha de publicación2000-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoCHAPTER
RevistaHedley Bull On International Society (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialPalgrave Macmillan UK (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1007/978-1-349-62666-3_7
OpenAlexW2479830295
ISBN9781349626663
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas13
Referencias citadas3

This is one of Bull's most powerful essays. It belongs to a collection of papers and lectures which work around the core themes of The Anarchical Society; but, in contrast to the book, Bull provides in this essay a far more committed defence of the central role of states in the promotion of international order. It seeks to rebut a broad range of arguments suggesting that the state is in decline; to suggest that challengers and competitors are nothing new; and to argue that states have not been passive or reactive but, on the contrary, have expanded both geographically and functionally. As in all his work, he sees in the state system 'an imperfect and rudimentary form of order that holds anarchy at bay'. He accepts that the 'framework of mere coexistence, of what is sometimes called "minimum world order", inherited from the European state-system, is no longer by itself adequate'; but nevertheless argues that the state and cooperative institutions built by, and around, states provide the most viable basis for meeting these expanded goals and for negotiating a modus vivendi between conflicting values systems and conflicting conceptions of what world order ought to embody.

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