Bull, Hedley

Bull, Hedley

▪ Australian scholar
born June 10, 1932, Sydney, Austl.
died May 18, 1985, Oxford, Eng.

      Australian scholar, one of the leading international-relations (international relations) experts during the second half of the 20th century, whose ideas profoundly shaped the development of the discipline, particularly in Australia and the United Kingdom.

      Bull studied history and philosophy at the University of Sydney, where he encountered the philosopher John Anderson, who led Bull to adopt realism. In 1953 Bull left Australia to study politics at the University of Oxford, and two years later he accepted an assistant lectureship in international relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Bull's lack of formal training in international relations was compensated for by his willingness to learn from established figures, and he attended the lectures of Martin Wight, whose theories revolutionized the study of international relations in the early part of the 20th century. Bull later recalled that his work constantly borrowed from Wight's.

      While at the LSE, Bull wrote his first book, The Control of the Arms Race: Disarmament and Arms Control in the Missile Age (1961), which analyzed the problems inherent in controlling the arms race. The success of that work led to his early promotion to reader in 1963 and to his appointment as director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Unit of the British Foreign Office two years later. In 1967 he returned to Australia to take up a professorship of international relations at the Australian National University in Canberra, and during the next decade he published numerous articles on Australia's foreign and security policy. In 1977 he published his best-known work, The Anarchical Society, an analysis of order in international society that examined topics such as the potential for disarmament and global governance. In the same year, Bull accepted the Montague Burton Chair of International Relations at Oxford.

      In 30 years of active scholarship, Bull published more than 100 articles, papers, and book chapters, two monographs, and seven edited books. Despite the breadth of his writing, there is a remarkable unity of purpose in his work. Following Wight, Bull sought to resist dichotomous thinking, fundamentally believing that international politics cannot be understood by using either the dominant tradition of realism or its historic alternative, idealism. Instead, he unrelentingly pursued a middle course that recognized that states form an international society, which is an arena that exhibits more order than the realists believed but less justice than the idealists wished. Long after his death from cancer in 1985, the imprint of his thinking is evident in a variety of subfields of international relations.

Tim Dunne
 

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