Hedley Bull

Hedley Bull (born October 6, 1932 in Sydney , Australia , † May 18, 1985 in Oxford , United Kingdom ) was an Australian political scientist . He was the founder of the English School in International Relations .

Life

Bull graduated from Sydney University with a master's degree in history and philosophy in 1953 before moving to England to study political science at the University of Oxford . In 1955 he went to the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) as an assistant . From 1957, Bull held a scholarship for various international organizations. In 1962 he returned to the LSE as a university lecturer ( reader ). From 1965 he worked as director for arms control and disarmament at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and from 1967 for ten years as professor of the political science discipline international relations at the Australian National University in Canberra . From 1977 until his death he was Professor of International Relations at Oxford. In 1984 he became a member ( fellow ) of the British Academy .

According to Bull's view (and the English School he founded ), the international state system is not only characterized by anarchy , but also by common interests that would lead to the development of an “anarchical society” equipped with common institutions .

Bull coined, among other things, the term domestic analogy , with the help of which international relations can be interpreted.

selected Writings

The control of the arms race: Disarmament and arms control in the missile age (1965)
Strategic studies and its critics (1967)
Justice in international relations (1984) (1983-84 Hagey lectures)
The Anarchical Society: A Study of Order in World Politics Third ed, with forewords by Stanley Hoffmann and Andrew Hurrell.
Intervention in World Politics (1984)
The Challenge of the Third Reich (1986) (The Adam von Trott Memorial Lectures)

literature

Coral Bell and Meredith Thatcher: Remembering Hedley . ANU Press, Canberra 2008, ISBN 9781921536076 .

Web links

Literature by and about Hedley Bull in the catalog of the German National Library
Entry on Hedley Bull in the virtual personal lexicon of international relations (PIBv), edited by Ulrich Menzel , Institute for Social Sciences at the Technical University of Braunschweig .
Hedley-Bull in the Encyclopædia Britannica .

Individual evidence

↑ Unless otherwise stated, biographical information is based on: Entry on Hedley Bull in the personal lexicon of international relations virtual (PIBv), edited by Ulrich Menzel , Institute for Social Sciences at the Technical University of Braunschweig .
^ Deceased Fellows. British Academy, accessed May 11, 2020 .
↑ The political science object of investigation, international relations , is written in lower case, while the political science discipline international relations is capitalized. In addition: Siegfried Schieder and Manuela Spindler: Theories of international relations . 3rd edition, Budrich, Opladen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8252-2315-1 , introduction, p. 9, note 1.

personal data
SURNAME	Bull, Hedley
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Bull, Hedley N .; Bull, Hedley Norman
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Australian political scientist, professor of international relations
DATE OF BIRTH	October 6, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH	Sydney ( Australia )
DATE OF DEATH	May 18, 1985
Place of death	Oxford ( UK )

[1] Unless otherwise stated, biographical information is based on: Entry on Hedley Bull in the personal lexicon of international relations virtual (PIBv), edited by Ulrich Menzel , Institute for Social Sciences at the Technical University of Braunschweig .

[2] Deceased Fellows. British Academy, accessed May 11, 2020 .

[3] The political science object of investigation, international relations , is written in lower case, while the political science discipline international relations is capitalized. In addition: Siegfried Schieder and Manuela Spindler: Theories of international relations . 3rd edition, Budrich, Opladen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8252-2315-1 , introduction, p. 9, note 1.