RICHARD LITTLE is Professor in International Politics at the University of Bristol, UK. He is a former editor of the Review of International Studies and Chair of the British International Studies Association. Currently he holds a major research fellowship from the Leverhulme Trust and is working on the history and theory of the balance of power. He is the co-author with Barry Buzan of International Systems in World History. JOHN WILLIAMS is Lecturer in International Relations, School of Government and International Affairs, Durham University, UK. As well as recent publicat

'This is a valuable contribution to the 'English School' of which Hedley Bull was a leading founder. The editors have assembled a first rate group of commentators on the work of Bull. The volume is a major assessment of The Anarchical Society three decades on.' - Professor Robert Jackson, Boston University, USA 'The anarchical society...offer[s] much that continues to be of great value for the study of IR.' - Rita Floyd, International Affairs 'This book is a very useful companion to Bull's as it introduces Bull to a gloablised world and scrutinises his ideas in depth.' - Alex J. Bellamy, Political Studies Review 'While the volume does not offer a solution to these issues, it does provide a number of ways of thinking about them afresh, in addition to others Bull raised. It can therefore be recommended to those interested in the English School or sociological approaches to IR and, indeed, to all advance students of the theory and practice of internatinal politics.' - Millennium Journal of International Studies

• Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction; J.Williams & R.Little PART 1: THE CONTRIBUTION TO THE STUDY OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Order and Society; J.Williams Seeing (Double) in the Darkness: The Moral Vision of The Anarchical Society ; N.J.Rengger Hedley Bull, 'Embedded Cosmopolitanism', and the Pluralist-Solidarist Debate; J.M.Almeida PART 2: THE INSTITUTIONS OF ANARCHICAL SOCIETY Rethinking Hedley Bull on the Institutions of International Society; B.Buzan The Balance of Power and Great Power Management; R.Little The Nature of Law in an Anarchical Society; D.Armstrong Diplomacy, Anti-diplomacy and International Society; I.Hall War in the Twenty-first Century: An Institution in Crisis; C.A.Jones PART 3: THE TEST OF TIME The State of International Society; A.Hurrell References Index