Reflections on the domestic analogy: the case of Bull, Beitz and Linklater

According to the late Professor Hedley Bull, the ‘domestic analogy’ is:
the argument from the experience of individual men in domestic society to the experience of states, according to which the need of individual men to stand in awe of a common power in order to live in peace is a ground for holding that states must do the same. The conditions of an orderly social life, on this view, are the same among states as they are within them: they require that the institutions of domestic society be reproduced on a universal scale.