Domestic analogy

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Domestic analogy is an international affairs term coined by Professor Hedley Bull.[1] Domestic analogy is the idea that states are like a "society of individuals". The analogy makes the presumption that relations between individuals and relations between states are the same.[2] The domestic analogy is used when aggression is explained as the international equivalent of armed robbery or murder. A person can look at international affairs like a society of people, except there is no police, and every conflict threatens the structure as a whole with collapse.[3]

In his famous book Just and Unjust Wars, Michael Walzer uses the term to explain what is a just and unjust war.[3]

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ "Society and Anarchy in international Relations" and "The Grotian Conception of International Society" in Butterfield, Herbert; Martin Wright (1968). Diplomatic Investigations: Essays in the Theory of International Politics. Harvard University Press. 0674210018. 
  2. ^ Political Realism. The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Retrieved on 2006-09-05.
  3. ^ a b Walzer, Michael (1977). Just and Unjust Wars. Basic Books. ISBN 0-465-03705-4.  p. 58-59

[edit] Further reading

  • Suganami, Hidemi (1989). The Domestic Analogy and World Order Proposals. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-34341-0. 


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