Power and international relations : essays in honour of Coral Bell / edited by Desmond Ball and Sheryn Lee

"Coral Mary Bell AO, one of the world's foremost academic experts on international relations, crisis management and alliance diplomacy, passed away in Canberra on 26 September 2012, aged eighty-nine. ... This volume is divided into three parts. Part One describes Coral's personal constitution and provides an overview of her career. ... Most of Coral's academic career was spent in Departments of International Relations, but she was always more interested in critiques of policy rather than International Relations theory. Indeed, she disdained theoretical approaches to the field. Nevertheless, as the contributions to Part Two of this volume show, she inevitably possessed a theoretical framework, albeit rarely explicated and somewhat inchoate. ...Part Three moves from international relations to the realm of power politics, which Coral explored with respect to practical policy-making concerning such critical matters as crisis management, Cold War competition, alliance diplomacy, US and Australian foreign and defence policies, and the construction of a stable and sustainable international system."--Introduction.