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International Politics in the 1970s: The Search for a Perspective

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2009

Stuart I. Fagan
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Associated with the School of International Affairs, Columbia University. This essay was prepared under the auspices of the Institute of War and Peace Studies, the Institute on Western Europe, and the Institute of Latin American Studies, School of International Affairs, Columbia University.
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1 F. S. Hinsley identifies another such lag between perceptions of international politics and evolving day-to-day reality at the very beginning of the Western state system. Therefore, comparing Hinsley's case with ours is interesting and enlightening. See Hinsley, F. S., Power and the Pursuit of Peace (Cambridge: The University Press, 1967), pp. 153–85, especially 167–68.Google Scholar

2 Some of the most stimulating and insightful recent attempts at reconceptualization in international relations are displayed in Sprout, Harold and Sprout, Margaret, Toward A Politics of the Planet Earth (New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1971), pp. 312, 348–460.Google Scholar See, also, Haas, Ernst B., Tangle of Hopes (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1969)Google Scholar, passim; Haas, Ernst B., Beyond the Nation-State (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1964)Google Scholar, passim; and Nye, Joseph S. Jr., Peace in Parts (Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1970)Google Scholar, especially the “Foreword” by Stanley Hoffmann and passim.

3 Aron, Raymond, Peace and War: A Theory of International Relations (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1966), p. 71.Google Scholar

4 While there has been, earlier, a good deal of discussion and debate among theorists about idealism versus realism and, more recently, about traditionalism versus scientism or behavioralism, one need only closely compare the works of the different theorists from the different schools to find rather sweeping agreement in the image of international politics as security politics described here. See, for example:Morgenthau, Hans J., Politics Among Nations, 4th ed. (New York: Alfred Knopf, 1967)Google Scholar; Aron, Peace and War; Kaplan, Morton, System and Process in International Politics (New York: John Wiley, 1957)Google Scholar;Hoff-mann, Stanley, The State of War, (New York: Praeger, 1965)Google Scholar; Boulding, Kenneth, Conflict and Defense (New York: Harper and Row, 1963)Google Scholar; Lasswell, Harold, World Politics and Personal Insecurity (New York: The Free Press, 1965).Google Scholar

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7 Nye and Keohane; see also Kaiser, Karl, “Transnational Politics: Toward a Theory of Multinational Politics,” International Organization 25 (Autumn 1971): 790818.CrossRefGoogle Scholar Also illuminating in this regard is Godson, Roy, “Non-Governmental Organizations in International Politics: The American Federation of Labor, The International Labor Movement and French Politics, 1945–1952” (Ph.D. dissertation, Columbia University, 1972).Google Scholar

8 Nye and Keohane, pp. 329–49.

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13 This question was the topic of a lecture by Robert O. Keohane delivered before the Columbia University International Fellows in October 1971; Keohane's answer was affirmative.

14 Karl Kaiser makes some interesting thrusts in this direction: Kaiser, pp. 801–15.

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18 A great deal of writing is beginning to appear on this subject, for example: Armand, Louis and Drancourt, Michel, The European Challenge (New York: Atheneum, 1970)Google Scholar; Gilpin, Robert, France in the Age of the Scientific State (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1967)Google Scholar; Brzezinski, Zbigniew K., Between Two Ages: America's Role in the Technetronic Age (New York: Viking, 1970)Google Scholar; Sprout and Sprout, The Politics of the Planet Earth, pp. 189–208, 348–77; Morse, Edward, “The Transformation of Foreign Policies: Modernization, Interdependence and Externalization,” World Politics 22 (April 1970): 371–92CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Cooper, Richard N., “Trade Policy is Foreign Policy,” Foreign Policy 9 (Winter 1972–73): 1836.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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23 Haas, Beyond the Nation-State, pp. 10–12.

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26 For an interesting case study of this phenomenon, see Strang, Lord, Britain in World Affairs: The Fluctuations in Power and Influence from Henry VIII to Elizabeth II (New York: Praeger, 1961)Google Scholar, passim.

27 Haas, Tangle of Hopes, pp. 119–64.

28 Our conceptualization of cosmopolitanism was influenced by Brzezinski's discussion of what he calls “rational humanism” (Between Two Ages, pp. 270–73), and by Daniel Lerner's and Morton Gorden's discussion of pragmatism in Lerner, and Gorden, , Euratlantica: Changing Perspectives of the European Elites (Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1969), pp. 241–51.Google Scholar