Abstract
In this chapter I propose to consider the following:
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What are the great powers?
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What role do great powers play in relation to international order?
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What is the role of the great powers in relation to international order at the present time?
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See, for example, George Liska, Imperial America. The International Politics of Primacy, Studies in International Affairs, no. 2 (Washington: Centre of Foreign Policy Research, Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies, 1967).
See speech by Mr Eisaku Sato in the United Nations General Assembly (October 1970), The Japan Times (22 October 1970); and speech in the Diet (November 1970), The Japan Times (26 November 1970).
W. T. R. Fox, The Super Powers: The United States, Britain and the Soviet Union — Their Responsibility for Peace (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1944).
But see Oran Young, The Politics of Force: Bargaining During International Crises (Princeton University Press, 1968); and
Coral Bell, The Conventions of Crisis: A Study in Diplomatic Management (Oxford University Press, 1971).
See Carsten Holbraad, Super Powers and International Conflict (London: Macmillan, 1979) ch. 5.
See Georg Schwarzenberger, ‘Hegemonial Intervention’, Yearbook of World Affairs (London: Stevens & Son, 1959).
On the ‘Brezhnev Doctrine’, see Theodor Schweisfurth, ‘Moscow Doctrine as a Norm of International Law’, Aussen Politik, vol. 22, I (1971).
Lord Curzon, Frontiers (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1907) p. 42.
M. F. Lindley, The Acquisition and Government of Backward Territory in International Law (London: Longmans, 1926).
Quoted in ibid. p. 208.
Walter Lippmann, U.S. War Aims (Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1944).
These terms are analysed at length by Carsten Holbraad in ‘Condominium and Concert’, in The Super Powers and World Order, ed. Holbraad (Canberra: Australian National University Press, 1971).
See John Strachey, On the Prevention of War (London: Macmillan, 1962).
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Bull, H. (1977). The Great Powers and International Order. In: The Anarchical Society. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24028-9_9
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