Hedley Bull and international security

dc.contributor.authorMakinda, Samuel Men_US
dc.date.accessioned2003-09-12en_US
dc.date.accessioned2004-05-19T17:23:23Zen_US
dc.date.accessioned2011-01-05T08:50:37Z
dc.date.available2004-05-19T17:23:23Zen_US
dc.date.available2011-01-05T08:50:37Z
dc.date.created1997en_US
dc.date.issued1997en_US
dc.description.abstractHedley Bull made a significant contribution to international security studies, but his role as a security theorist remains largely unexplored. This paper argues that Bull’s ideas went beyond the traditional international security agenda and helped establish the foundation for critical security theory. Although Bull did not describe himself as a critical security theorist, his work indirectly provided a basis on which the assumptions underpinning the traditional international security assumptions could be challenged. Bull was a trans-paradigm theorist who utilised realism, pluralism, classical solidarism and cosmopolitan solidarism not only to shed significant light on the traditional international security perspective, but also to lay the foundation for critical security theory. In his early work, Bull used realism and pluralism to address the traditional international security agenda, with its emphasis on threats to the states, power politics, and the use of military force. Classical solidarism provided a framework through which he explored ideas about collective security and the ability of the United Nations to deal with common threats to international order and security. Through cosmopolitan solidarism, Bull explained the need for international society and world society to deal with poverty and injustice in the world. It is through cosmopolitan solidarist ideas that Bull can be portrayed as a critical security theorist.en_US
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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/41677en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://digitalcollections.anu.edu.au/handle/1885/41677
dc.language.isoen_AUen_US
dc.subjectHedley Bullen_US
dc.subjectinternational securityen_US
dc.subjecttrans-paradigmen_US
dc.subjectrealismen_US
dc.subjectpluralismen_US
dc.subjectsolidarismen_US
dc.subjectjusticeen_US
dc.subjectcritical security theoryen_US
dc.titleHedley Bull and international securityen_US
dc.typeWorking/Technical Paperen_US
local.citationWorking paper no. 1997/3en_US
local.contributor.affiliationANUen_US
local.contributor.affiliationDepartment of International Relations, RSPASen_US
local.description.refereednoen_US
local.identifier.citationmonthsepen_US
local.identifier.citationyear1997en_US
local.identifier.eprintid1963en_US
local.rights.ispublishedyesen_US

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