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

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Abstract

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.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)145-158
Number of pages14
JournalReview of International Studies
Volume12
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 01 Apr 1986

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