The Domestic Analogy in Modern Political Thought

Abstract

Despite the relative recentness of the ‘domestic analogy’ label, the use of analogies taken from the domestic sphere is quite widespread in reflection on international relations. Since the outset, analogies taken from domestic experience have entered the debate on international relations in various ways. While trying to reconstruct the role that the domestic analogy plays in such a debate, I will follow the same classification criteria used by Bull himself (Bull 1966a: 37).