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We have now explained what is meant by order in world politics, and shown that in some measure it exists in the modern system of states. The question to which we shall now turn is: how is it maintained?
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See, for example, M. Fortes and E. E. Evans-Pritchard, African Political Systems (Oxford University Press, 1940);
John Middleton and David Tait (eds), Tribes Without Rulers, Studies in African Segmentary Systems (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1958); and
I. Southall, ‘Stateless Societies’, in Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences, ed. David L. Sills (New York: Free Press, 1968). I am also indebted to
Roger D. Masters’s penetrating article ‘World Politics as a Primitive Political System’, World Politics, vol. XVI, no. 4 (July 1964).
See Schapera, Government and Politics in Tribal Societies (New York: Watts, 1956) ch. 1. For Maine’s view see Ancient Law (London: John Murray, 1930) p. 144.
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Bull, H. (1977). How is Order Maintained in World Politics?. In: The Anarchical Society. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24028-9_3
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