ABSTRACT
Hedley Bull joined the Institute in 1960, when he was on the staff of the London School of Economics. At the time Alastair Buchan was organizing the Second Annual Conference on the topic ‘The Control of the Arms Race’, and he needed a rapporteur. In 1976 Hedley Bull came to Oxford as a Visiting Fellow of All Souls College, when Alastair Buchan, then the Montagu Burton Professor of International Relations, so suddenly and tragically died. Hedley was so evidently the obvious candidate to succeed Alastair that he reluctantly abandoned his work at Canberra and returned to Oxford the following year. Hedley did not allow the chores of Oxford to lessen his devotion to the Institute, to whose Council he had been re-elected in 1981. He regularly attended its meetings, and those of the Executive Committee, until March 1985, when he came to London for the last time to hear Paul Nitze give the Alastair Buchan Memorial Lecture.
