The Anarchical Society: A Study of Order in World Politics

Laws and institutions, as Bull points out, shift and change over time.What The Anarchical Society attempts to address are the unwritten rules which have allowed international order to exist across the ages.

-A masterful analysis of the problem of international order in contemporary society and of the feasibility of such alternative models as disarmament, global organization, a highly proliferated world, and a radical redistribution of wealth and power. -Foreign Affairs