Society and Anarchy in International Relations (1966)

Abstract

Whereas men within each state are subject to a common government, sovereign states in their mutual relations are not. This anarchy 1 it is possible to regard as the central fact of international life and the starting-point of theorizing about it. 2 A great deal of the most fruitful reflection about international life has been concerned with tracing the consequences in it of this absence of government. We can, indeed, give some account in these terms of what it is that distinguishes the international from the domestic field of politics, morals and law. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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