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“... Intervention, according to Hedley Bull, is ‘dictatorial or coercive interference, by an outside party or parties, in the sphere of jurisdiction of a sovereign state, or more broadly of an independent political community’. And if there is any principle on which the international community can be said to agree, it is that intervention, so defined, is legally and morally illegitimate ...”

“... its elan. Few of his ideas are entirely new, and he acknowledges his debt to Noberto Bobbio and to Hedley Bull, another sceptic about international law who nevertheless believed in the power of vigorous preventive diplomacy in interstate relations. (Although it is now axiomatic in US foreign policy circles that early military intervention in Rwanda and ...”

“... than to inform it. A similar problem afflicts the defence intellectual. Freedman paraphrases Hedley Bull to the effect that ‘good scholarship is likely to be subversive of all causes, good or bad.’ But the institutions Freedman and his colleagues represent are not neutral: they have a structural role within the British establishment. As a public ...”